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After the Doctor retired to Gallifrey, he fell in love with the Lord President's daughter, but she and nearly every other Time Lord was killed by an alien race.
Whilst the Time Lords retreated into the Matrix, where their memories were kept after death, the Doctor's love was "truly dead". (PROSE: Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor [+]Loading...["Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor (short story)"]) From the Matrix, the Time Lords sent the Doctor, and the Master, on dangerous missions in the universe as punishment for the death of (WC: Scream of the Shalka, PROSE: Scream of the Shalka) the Lord President's daughter. (PROSE: Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor [+]Loading...["Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor (short story)"])
The Twelfth Doctor later told Clara Oswald that a rumour spread by the Shobogans that he had stolen "the President's wife" was a distortion of the truth that he had stolen "the President's daughter". (TV: Hell Bent) However, one Time Lord historian believed this was a reference to Susan Foreman and how the First Doctor had spirited her away from Gallifrey when he originally escaped from the Capitol. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords)