Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender

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The most touching of the book’s many interviews is with Ade Adenuga, the owner of the nursing home in which Marcia died, broken and penniless, in 2019. Lady Falkender, Mr Adenuga tells McDougall, was a popular resident who always had a story to tell. I’ll bet she did. One can't get no satisfaction! Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, 76, is joined by glamorous wife Sally, 46, as they chat to Prince William at the Tusk Awards Emerald Emma! Marchioness of Bath is effortlessly elegant in silky green gown as she and her husband chat to Prince William at Tusk Conservation Awards This in itself created no end of lurid speculation. She was a single working mother - a career woman. Selma Blair reveals a doctor once told her to get a BOYFRIEND after she sought help for agonizing MS symptoms - as she opens up about pain

IT IS a tradition that when a new PM and his or her entourage arrive at No 10, the staff line up to clap. No such thing happened in the autumn of 1964. Nobody was there. It was the start of a long battle between Marcia and the ‘Sir Humphreys’ of the civil service. The horrors endured by Hamas's hostages: Barely any food, forced to sleep on plastic chairs, waiting to be executed... Israelis reveal the Hell they went through while held captive for seven weeks

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Olivia Colman cuts a chic figure in a dark green jumpsuit as she joins Timothee Chalamet and Hugh Grant for the Wonka photocall We must remember, when Williams achieved her status - in the late 1950s - women had boasted the vote on an equal footing with men for less than 30 years. It was at this point that Marcia began to gain a reputation for being ‘difficult’. She was chief adviser to the prime minister, but she was going to have to fight for recognition. Mitchell and his staff were misogynistic and patronising, but she refused to be cowed. He tried to dismiss her as a constituency secretary-type with not much more to offer. Princess Michael of Kent, 78, blasted Meghan Markle for making 'it all about race because that's all everyone does', Omid Scobie claims