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Harold wilson by ben pimlott5/24/2023 ![]() There were strong suggestions that all this was the legacy of a passionate affair when Harold met Marcia back in the ’50s. According to them, Wilson was terrified of Marcia and caved in instantly to her eccentric demands. They said she humiliated him in public and screamed at him behind closed doors. Labour Home Secretary Roy Jenkins said Marcia had the best brain and the highest courage of all Wilson’s advisers.īut the young, ambitious men she worked with believed she had the Prime Minister firmly in her control. Historian Ben Pimlott called the relationship between Marcia and Prime Minister Harold Wilson ‘the most famous and mysterious partnership in modern political history’. ![]() Over a decade before Margaret Thatcher swept to power, another Englishwoman was running Britain from 10 Downing Street: Marcia Williams was the first ever female political adviser to a Prime Minister, and she was said to have a powerful grip on her boss. ![]()
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