Margot at War Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 [Audiobook]

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 bedeviled by her stepdaughter's jealous, almost incestuous 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 Drawing on unpublished material from personal papers and diaries, Anne de Courcy vividly recreates this extraordinary time when the prime minister's residence was run like an English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 socializing taking precedence over politics, love letters written in the cabinet room, and gossip and state secrets exchanged over the bridge table.