Summary
THE real Mary Wilson is dramatically different from the dull suburban housewife who was caricatured so ruthlessly during her husband Harold's years of power. Her reputation for doing little more than 'standing by her man' was acquired in an era before Prime Ministers' wives became personalities in their own right.
It was exacerbated by Mrs Wilson's Diary a long-running spoof in the satirical magazine Private Eye that mocked her apparent meekness and fondness for composing verse.See the full content of this document
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The Truth About Harold ; Through 30 Years of Scandalous Rumours, She's Kept Her Silence. Now, Lady Wilson, Wife of One of Our Most Intriguing Premiers, Reveals the Truth About His 'Affair' with Lady Falkender, the Real Reason He Quit and Her Advice to Sarah Brown
Mary never complained, and finally faded from public view during the many years she devotedly nursed her husband as he was gradually consumed by Alzheimer's.
Today, the 'little woman' calumny is regurgitated whenever so- called new 'revelations' about Wilson's premiership which ended prematurely in 1976 after he resigned under rather mysterious circumstances are spewed out by one of his 'loyal' lieutenants.But his widow must also take some responsibility for all the nonsense that is so often written, because she adamantly refuses to take on her husband's detractors. An intensely private woman, she despises the cult of personality that has infested modern politics. And she emphatically does not believe in letting he...See the full content of this document
