Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender

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When Sir Harold heard about the Royal Family’s domestic problems he had, according to Lady Falkender said: ‘Well, Ma’am, do you think this would help?’ When Mary got home after the meal, Marcia had telephoned and announced that she wanted to see her immediately. Pictured, Harold Wilson and Mary in 10 Downing Street, 1967 Love Island star Chloe Burrows pays tribute to her late friend after his sudden death: 'Love and miss you every day!' Ad Feature The much-loved labrador that sniffed out her owner's breast cancer, saving her life and inspiring a new...

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Amanda Holden looks stunning in a sexy gold slip as she playfully blows bubbles from a bath during her latest festive TV advert Warped Hamas warlords REFUSE to release youngest hostage instead handing TEN-MONTH-OLD Kfir Bibas to... When I asked Margarete Field, Marcia’s sister-in-law, whether she thought Harold and Marcia had had an affair in the early days of their relationship, she laughed and said, ‘Well, what do you think?’ After secretarial training she got a job, aged 24, at Labour Party HQ, where her boss, Morgan Phillips, on the Right of the party, was sidelining Wilson, then shadow chancellor, who was on the Left. Marcia, putting her money on Wilson, sent him a series of anonymous letters warning him of “certain things that were happening” which might affect his political progress.I want to know if Brianna screams like a man or a girl': Teens accused of murdering transgender schoolgirl Brianna Ghey swapped messages as they plotted to lure her to a park where one of them stabbed her 28 times, murder trial hears To me it is clear that her sex contributes to this amnesia. In Williams's age where women in politics, if seen or noticed at all, were confined to the "safe", "maternal" spaces of education or health policy, she was a curious creature - at home in the most male of environments, in the engine-room of politics and at that one of its principal operators. Tall, slim and blonde with piercing blue eyes, newly-married Marcia Williams was a 24-year-old secretary at Transport House, the Labour Party’s HQ, when she met the man she had already talent-spotted as a rising star, former Oxford don Harold Wilson. Omid Scobie's sneak peak 'truth bombs': Every claim the 'Sussex Cheerleader-In-Chief' makes against the Royal Family in extracts book Endgame

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King Charles and Prince William are 'allowing selfish agendas and family discord to take over the House of Windsor' She had worked steadily throughout her pregnancy in her office right next to the Cabinet Room, dealing with MPs, trade unionists, civil servants and office staff, and it seems unthinkable now that no one ever noticed her changing figure. But then she always turned up early for meetings, so was seated when everyone else arrived, and she kept her coat on. Geri Horner poses for a VERY star-studded photo withPrincess Eugenie, Naomi Campbell and Orlando Bloom at Abu DhabiGrand Prix As recorded in depth in memoirs and diaries by both Haines and Wilson’s policy adviser, Lord (Bernard) Donoughue, life in Downing Street became increasingly difficult because of Williams’s mercurial nature. She became dominating and wilful, and both men record the extent to which her problems absorbed the prime minister. Paedophile teacher who abducted 15-year-old schoolgirl and fled to France is fired from his new job at a...

The BBC agreed to move Steptoe. Labour won 317 seats, the Tories 304 and the Liberals nine, a majority of just four seats. Later, Wilson said that but for Marcia and her ingenuity, he would never have become prime minister. But after an appeal, they confirmed the sum she was paid from 2006 and that Falkender, 83, is likely to have received tens of thousands of pounds more in preceding years. King Charles was 'cold and brief' in 'awkward' phone call with Prince Harry after the Duke reached out to him following release of memoir SpareKanye West sings anti-Semitic song Vultures with the lyrics 'I just f***ed a Jewish b****' on stage with Lil Durk and Ty Dolla Sign in Dubai Grace Dent will be paid her FULL I'm A Celebrity fee despite quitting the show after just eight days in camp Disney star opens up on his very racy cameo in Troye Sivan video where he gets a lap dance from the singer who is dressed as a woman Stacey Solomon rolls round on the floor in panic as she attempts to rescue a bird trapped under her sofa - whilst husband Joe Swash films the whole thing