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Article: First Lady skivvies; Why is it that the wives of Britain's prime ministers are expected to clean No 10?
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2004
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Byline: ANTONIA FRASER
The Goldfish Bowl
by Cherie Booth and Cate Haste
(Chatto, [pounds sterling]18.99)
WHEN Prime Minister Harold Wilson was called away suddenly from Chequers one weekend, leaving his wife Mary behind, she found "there was no encouragement for her to stay".
Rather the contrary, since blinds were drawn and rugs rolled up around her, furniture covered in dustsheets the minute Wilson himself left.
It was only much later when the rules of the Chequers Trust were studied, that Mary Wilson was graciously allowed to remain at Chequers one night alone if her husband was summoned away unexpectedly, and even ...