Asquith’s extroadinary letters just before WWI and why Robert Harris had to lift the lid | Books | Entertainment
Author Robert Harris (Image: Getty) It rank as one of the most extraordinary correspondences of all time. But having fallen in love with a well-connected socialite 35 years his junior in the spring of 1912, Liberal prime minister HH Asquith, then 59, wrote obsessively to 24-year-old Venetia Stanley over the next three years. Up to … Read more
