Edwina Currie revealed her four-year affair with Sir John in her diaries in 2002. The sexual liaison began in the 1980s, when Sir John was a government whip. Above: The pair in 1994.
In what is the 150th anniversary year of Churchill s birth, Ian Lloyd looks back on the extraordinary relationship between the late Queen and her favourite Prime Minister.
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: The windfall is 28 times his annual salary as leader of the Church of England and head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It s a life-changing sum, a friend tells me.
This week’s fascinating Times obituary of Jane Portal, one of Winston Churchill’s secretaries, recalled her drunken fling with fellow-staffer Anthony Montague