![]() ![]() ![]() Margot's relationship with her husband was already bedevilled by her stepdaughter's jealous, almost incestuous adoration of her father. 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. In 1912, when Anne de Courcy's book opens, rumblings of discontent and cries for social reform were encroaching on all sides - from suffragettes, striking workers and Irish nationalists. Yet her last four years at Number 10 were a period of intense emotional and political turmoil in her private and public life. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. ![]() ![]() Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. An unconventional view of the First World War from inside the glittering social salon of Downing Street: a story of unrequited love, loss, sacrifice, scandal and the Prime Minister's wife, Margot Asquith ![]()
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