British Prime minister, was obsessed with sex
Aug 17, 2023 21:17:13 GMT
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A very priapic PM! No, not Boris Johnson, but David Lloyd George - the premier so sex-obsessed that while his wife was upstairs at No 10, he was in coalition with his mistress on the ground floor
Lloyd George was so sex-obsessed he has his mistress in the house with his wife
The PM and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds moved into Downing Street last month
The decision has attracted some controversy as Boris Johnson is still married
Boris Johnson has been compared by some to the former liberal Prime Minister
Nothing could have prepared the young broadcaster for the sight which greeted him when he was dispatched by the BBC to interview veteran politician David Lloyd George in the aftermath of the general election of 1935.
Knocking on the door of the former Liberal Prime Minister’s Cardiff hotel room, Wynn Vaughan-Thomas entered to find the 72-year-old sitting in bed with a topless young woman either side of him. Told to unpack his recording equipment and ‘get on with it’, he did just that, Lloyd George as unfazed at being questioned naked as he was by the presence of his nubile companions.
They were just two of the multitude of women who, over the decades, fell for the charms of the man later described by his son Richard as ‘the greatest Don Juan in the history of British politics’.
Even in his 80s, he was still chasing women — ignoring repeated rejections from the Land Girls who worked on his Surrey estate during World War II. Among them was the twenty-something Jean Campbell-Harris, later Baroness Trumpington. She recalled how Lloyd George once asked if he could check her vital statistics with a tape measure, a request she said she brushed off.
‘With an attractive woman he was as much to be trusted as a Bengal tiger with a gazelle,’ Richard observed in his 1960 biography of his father.
For all the controversy over the colourful love life of our new and famously priapic PM, ‘Bonking Boris’ is unlikely ever to match Lloyd George’s antics. There are, however, parallels between the two.
Boris and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds moved into Downing Street last month, after some speculation that she would live in the £1.3 million home they recently purchased in South London.
Their decision has attracted controversy because not only is the PM still married to his second wife and mother of his four children, Marina Wheeler, but because he and Ms Symonds are the first unmarried couple to take up official residence there.
But a century earlier Lloyd George pre-empted this flaunting of moral convention — and went one better. Between 1916 and 1922, he shared the most famous address in Britain not just with his mistress but his wife too.
An open secret in political circles, but never reported in the more circumspect press of the day, this prime ministerial ménage à trois surprised no one who had even the slightest acquaintance with Whitehall’s most notorious womaniser — and especially not his trusted aide A. J. Sylvester.
One evening he was asked to pass a change of clothes to his boss as he stepped out of the bath. As he recalled in his diaries, Sylvester couldn’t help noticing ‘the biggest organ I had ever seen. No wonder they [women] are always after him — and he after them.’
By the time he became Prime Minister in 1916 aged 53, the schoolmaster’s son from rural North Wales was a prolific philanderer, cheating on Margaret, his wife of 30 years and the mother of their five children, numerous times.
One liaison was with the wife of a fellow MP and another with one of Margaret’s cousins, a woman he allegedly seduced when her husband, a doctor, was out on an emergency call.
According to Richard Lloyd George, his father had at least two children with other women, but his mother tolerated his behaviour because she knew that he was not emotionally involved with any of the mistresses concerned.
That all changed in 1911 when Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Frances Stevenson, a young teacher from London, was asked to spend the summer holidays at the family home in Wales, tutoring nine year-old Megan Lloyd George before she began boarding school.
Only 22, to Lloyd George’s 48, she fulfilled his constant need for attention and adulation as described by his son.
‘All his life he had . . . fed on the love of those around him, like a monster greedy child who demands everything as his right and gives nothing of himself in return.’
‘Pussy’, as he called Frances, never tired of telling her ‘Tom Cat’ what he wanted to hear, attending his speeches in the House of Commons and sending him notes of praise from the gallery.
In return he told her what she wanted to hear, that his marriage was dead and he remained with Margaret only because of his children and his career. It was far from true but his feelings for Frances were genuine and he wanted her as a permanent fixture — along with his wife. He offered her a job as secretary at the Treasury — on condition that she became his full-time mistress.
In accepting, she was signing up for what another biographer, the Labour politician Roy Hattersley, describes as ‘a lifetime of subterfuge and humiliation’.
In the early years of their relationship, Frances is thought to have had at least two abortions at her lover’s behest. She also agreed to Lloyd George’s suggestion that she should marry another man as cover for their affair, and became engaged to an Army captain who was promised by Lloyd George that it would benefit his career.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7362341/Lloyd-George-sex-obsessed-kept-mistress-downstairs.html
Lloyd George was so sex-obsessed he has his mistress in the house with his wife
The PM and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds moved into Downing Street last month
The decision has attracted some controversy as Boris Johnson is still married
Boris Johnson has been compared by some to the former liberal Prime Minister
Nothing could have prepared the young broadcaster for the sight which greeted him when he was dispatched by the BBC to interview veteran politician David Lloyd George in the aftermath of the general election of 1935.
Knocking on the door of the former Liberal Prime Minister’s Cardiff hotel room, Wynn Vaughan-Thomas entered to find the 72-year-old sitting in bed with a topless young woman either side of him. Told to unpack his recording equipment and ‘get on with it’, he did just that, Lloyd George as unfazed at being questioned naked as he was by the presence of his nubile companions.
They were just two of the multitude of women who, over the decades, fell for the charms of the man later described by his son Richard as ‘the greatest Don Juan in the history of British politics’.
Even in his 80s, he was still chasing women — ignoring repeated rejections from the Land Girls who worked on his Surrey estate during World War II. Among them was the twenty-something Jean Campbell-Harris, later Baroness Trumpington. She recalled how Lloyd George once asked if he could check her vital statistics with a tape measure, a request she said she brushed off.
‘With an attractive woman he was as much to be trusted as a Bengal tiger with a gazelle,’ Richard observed in his 1960 biography of his father.
For all the controversy over the colourful love life of our new and famously priapic PM, ‘Bonking Boris’ is unlikely ever to match Lloyd George’s antics. There are, however, parallels between the two.
Boris and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds moved into Downing Street last month, after some speculation that she would live in the £1.3 million home they recently purchased in South London.
Their decision has attracted controversy because not only is the PM still married to his second wife and mother of his four children, Marina Wheeler, but because he and Ms Symonds are the first unmarried couple to take up official residence there.
But a century earlier Lloyd George pre-empted this flaunting of moral convention — and went one better. Between 1916 and 1922, he shared the most famous address in Britain not just with his mistress but his wife too.
An open secret in political circles, but never reported in the more circumspect press of the day, this prime ministerial ménage à trois surprised no one who had even the slightest acquaintance with Whitehall’s most notorious womaniser — and especially not his trusted aide A. J. Sylvester.
One evening he was asked to pass a change of clothes to his boss as he stepped out of the bath. As he recalled in his diaries, Sylvester couldn’t help noticing ‘the biggest organ I had ever seen. No wonder they [women] are always after him — and he after them.’
By the time he became Prime Minister in 1916 aged 53, the schoolmaster’s son from rural North Wales was a prolific philanderer, cheating on Margaret, his wife of 30 years and the mother of their five children, numerous times.
One liaison was with the wife of a fellow MP and another with one of Margaret’s cousins, a woman he allegedly seduced when her husband, a doctor, was out on an emergency call.
According to Richard Lloyd George, his father had at least two children with other women, but his mother tolerated his behaviour because she knew that he was not emotionally involved with any of the mistresses concerned.
That all changed in 1911 when Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Frances Stevenson, a young teacher from London, was asked to spend the summer holidays at the family home in Wales, tutoring nine year-old Megan Lloyd George before she began boarding school.
Only 22, to Lloyd George’s 48, she fulfilled his constant need for attention and adulation as described by his son.
‘All his life he had . . . fed on the love of those around him, like a monster greedy child who demands everything as his right and gives nothing of himself in return.’
‘Pussy’, as he called Frances, never tired of telling her ‘Tom Cat’ what he wanted to hear, attending his speeches in the House of Commons and sending him notes of praise from the gallery.
In return he told her what she wanted to hear, that his marriage was dead and he remained with Margaret only because of his children and his career. It was far from true but his feelings for Frances were genuine and he wanted her as a permanent fixture — along with his wife. He offered her a job as secretary at the Treasury — on condition that she became his full-time mistress.
In accepting, she was signing up for what another biographer, the Labour politician Roy Hattersley, describes as ‘a lifetime of subterfuge and humiliation’.
In the early years of their relationship, Frances is thought to have had at least two abortions at her lover’s behest. She also agreed to Lloyd George’s suggestion that she should marry another man as cover for their affair, and became engaged to an Army captain who was promised by Lloyd George that it would benefit his career.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7362341/Lloyd-George-sex-obsessed-kept-mistress-downstairs.html
