Review Article: The Fiery Chariot: British Prime Ministers and the Search for Love

In: British journal of political science, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 345-369

Abstract

'Life is all opposites, and a child born with a silver spoon may have to swallow many spoonfuls of bitterness.' (The childhood nurse of Sir Henry Page Croft MP, quoted in My Life of Strife by Sir Henry Page Croft — later Lord Croft.)