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Marcia Williams made herself indispensable as the personal and political secretary of Labour’s first Prime Minister since Clement Attlee, but it ended in scandal, poverty and disgrace
A calendar celebrating a classic car, the Rover P5B, regarded as one of Dundee's finest exports has become an international success story.
If Marcia Williams is thought of at all today, it is in terms of hysterical outbursts, a mysterious hold over the Labour prime minister Harold Wilson and, above all, the ‘Lavender List’ – Wilson’s 1976 Resignation Honours List in which Marcia is believed to have played a significant part. Linda McDougall, the widow of the
Baroness Falkender, then known as Marcia Williams, exhibited increasingly erratic behaviour, amd was known to be a heavy user of the chemical stimulant, Drinamyl, also known as purple hearts
The Labour PM’s illicit affair was over by the time he became prime minister