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- Product code: 258947
- ISBN: 0007219490,
ISBN13: 9780007219490,
608 pages, hardback
Published by Harper Collins on 2008
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Description of The Pain and the Privilege |
With exclusive access to papers long out of the public realm, the wife of William Hague focuses on the life of David Lloyd George: prime minister, devoted public servant and habitual womaniser. The Bookseller. "Men's lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially -- as lawyer and politician. Woman's function is to pour oil on the wounds -- to heal the bruises of spirit!and to stimulate to renewed exertion." Lloyd George was a man who loved women and the tale of his intertwined relationships contains many mysteries and a few unsolved intrigues. He was cited in two divorce cases, was rumoured to have fought a duel over a woman in Argentina, and had persuaded the prettiest girl in Criccieth to be his wife. Lloyd George's life was indeed a 'perpetual conflict'. He was a habitual womaniser and despite his early, enduring attachement to Margaret Owen, marriage did not curb his behaviour. There were many private scandals in a life devoted to public duty. Ffion Hague illuminates his complex attitude to women. Her own interest stems from the many parallels in her own life.
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About Ffion Hague |
Ffion Hague was born in Cardiff. A native Welsh- speaker, she studied English Literature at Oxford and then took an MPhil in Eighteenth Century Welsh poetry at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. After graduating a second time, Ffion joined the Civil Service and was posted to the Welsh Office. She held a number of policy positions before being appointed Private Secretary to the Secretary of State. On leaving the Civil Service, she became Director of Operations at the business-facing charity, Arts & Business. In 2000, she became a headhunter and since 2003, has been a director of Hanson & Green. Ffion was a trustee of The British Council and also a judge of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000. She is married to William Hague and lives in Yorkshire.
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