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31 de may. de 2024 · Over the weekend when the British Cabinet debated whether to enter the First World War, Frances stayed with Lloyd George because his wife, Margaret, preferred to spend a great deal of time at the family home in Wales.
16 de may. de 2024 · David Lloyd George and his wife, Margaret, with their daughter Megan. As a young man, Lloyd George had the romantic good looks that ensured success with women. After numerous love affairs, he was married in 1888 to Margaret Owen, who bore him two sons and three daughters.
14 de may. de 2024 · The storms of war and multiple crises provide the setting for the book, but Lloyd George’s story is defined by the rivalries that dominate his life. He seized power from his old friend Herbert Asquith, Lloyd George breaks with many of his old liberal allies over his vigorous methods to win the war.
23 de may. de 2024 · Covering Lloyd George's emergence as the dominating political personality in Great Britain to the aftermath of his resignation, this fascinating biography takes you inside the rooms where the important decisions happened, and shows the bitter struggles as well as the triumphs of this great man of his or any other age, who nonetheless ...
Hace 4 días · Together with his 'sibling' Lord Sumner, the prime minister cast as the pair as the villains of the reparations settlement in his inaptly entitled memoirs of the conference 'The Truth about the Peace Treaties' and his verdict endorsed the views of earlier impressive witnesses such as Harold Nicolson and John Maynard Keynes.
9 de may. de 2024 · Lloyd George was not the man who won the war; he nearly lost it. His judgment on military matters was no better than Asquith’s, whom he removed in a coup d’état in 1916. He swore after...
11 de may. de 2024 · We discuss key transitional moments from post war affluence in the 1950s and 1960s, the assault on organised labour in the 1970s and the social transformations brought about by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, all the way to Brexit and the current moment.
