If Love Were All...: The Story Of Frances Stevenson And David Lloyd
George

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In the summer of 1911 David Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, hired a young schoolteacher called Frances Stevenson to tutor his daughter in the summer holidays. He was forty-eight, & married with four children. She was twenty-two & had recently graduated with a degree in classics. She was highly intelligent as well as very attractive, & Lloyd George soon began to employ her as his secretary. At the beginning of 1913 they became lovers, on terms spelt out by Lloyd George with ruthless clarity: he would not leave his wife for her, nor would he risk his career. She was to become his private secretary, run his office & share his life as fully as his family & the need to avoid a scandal would allow. Their secret relationship was to last for thirty years until his wife