Jane Ridley

Move over Downton: Margot and the Asquiths’ marital soap opera

There were more than three people in this overcrowded marriage

issue 29 November 2014

You might be forgiven for thinking that there is no need for yet another book about Margot Asquith. Her War Diary was published only a few months ago: surely we have had enough about this woman, extraordinary though she was.

Anne de Courcy’s new book shows that this is not the case at all.

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