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Margot at War - Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 (Paperback)
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Margot at War - Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 (Paperback)
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Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime
Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and
habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into
a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last four years
at Number 10 were a period of intense emotional and political
turmoil in her private and public life. In 1912 rumblings of
discontent and cries for social reform were encroaching on all
sides - from suffragettes, striking workers and Irish nationalists.
Against this background of a government beset with troubles, the
Prime Minister fell desperately in love with his daughter's best
friend, Venetia Stanley; to complicate matters, so did his Private
Secretary. Margot's relationship with her husband was already
bedevilled by her stepdaughter's jealous adoration of her father.
The outbreak of the First World War only heightened these swirling
tensions within Downing Street. Drawing on unpublished material
from personal papers and diaries, Anne de Courcy vividly recreates
this extraordinary time when the Prime Minister's residence was run
like an English country house, with socialising taking precedence
over politics, love letters written in the cabinet room and gossip
and state secrets exchanged over the bridge table.
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