Anne de Courcy

Love and loathing at Harold Wilson’s No. 10

Even her enemies considered Marcia Williams the prime minister’s ‘political wife’, and the real force in the Labour party from the mid-1960s to Wilson’s resignation

Harold Wilson and Marcia Williams in July 1975 [Alamy]
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