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No one believed it. Their papers for these years reveal how complicated their relationship had become, and that although theirs was not a romantic match, neither was it a straightforward marriage of convenience.

The day before the wedding, Disraeli warned his money agent not to send letters about his debts in case Mary Anne read them, but he also wrote her a poem that suggests he had come to appreciate her spontaneity, sound judgment and a conversational style as surprising as it was quick. In some respects they were a well-matched pair, and from the start they united over shared passions.

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Both of them loved the thrill of the campaign trail, and Mary Anne in particular understood the value of a solid election brand. During general election contests she would garland her person, her carriage and her husband with purple ribbons, before sallying forth to give kisses, hugs and cakes to the voters. Whenever she appeared, the crowds were won over by the enthusiasm and glamour she radiated. Sometimes the excitement even got the better of the Disraelis themselves. During a particularly successful campaigning visit to Edinburgh they were cheered to the rafters, and when they were alone they could not contain their glee.

The bustle of elections provided only an occasional distraction, though, and the day-to-day reality of married life proved rather more testing. Disraeli hid the full extent of his debts from Mary Anne for years, using a private post restante system to communicate with his creditors. His political career in the early s was marked by disappointments and setbacks as he was forced to watch the promotion of less able men from the backbenches. Robert Peel and other Tory grandees distrusted him, and both the Disraelis felt the strain.

Mary Anne marked passages of tension between them with a phrase that recurs in her account books from this time: There were fights, and periods of alienation, as well as continued sniping from a suspicious press. After they bought the estate of Hughenden in Buckinghamshire in , the Disraelis found that their long-schemed-for house locked them together in mutual isolation each autumn. Mary Anne took refuge in her garden, planting and pruning by torchlight, transforming Hughenden into the romantic space of her dreams.

Disraeli invented spurious reasons to return to the capital, begging trusted political friends to post fictive requests for his presence. Divorce was impossible and unthinkable, but neither of the Disraelis could reconcile their compromised reality with the romance they wanted. And so, slowly, together, they overcame their difficulties to make that romance a reality.

This, I think, is the magical thing about their story.

Their union broke every rule of the Victorian marriage market: Mary Anne was older and much less well-educated than her husband, with none of the social influence that might have made up for such failings. Theirs was not a love match, and for years Disraeli consistently refused to share his financial plight and his innermost existence with his wife.

But in spite of all this, a romance that had begun as a fantasy became, in its third act, authentic and true. Within a week of her ennoblement Mary Anne had arranged for all the cushions at Hughenden to be embroidered with Bs, but she had also quietly organised a pension for a female acquaintance whose story had ended far less happily than her own. For his part, Disraeli came to realise that the love affairs of the old were just as unexpected and romantic as the amorous adventures of the young.

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My telling of it is founded on an extraordinary archive which encompasses letters, blackmail threats, suicide notes, account books, valentine cards, and even a box of hair: She visited him frequently at the White House and was known to be one of his mistresses, according to another biographer, Nina Burleigh. Meyer was shot execution-style in October , while walking in Georgetown.

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When Jackie was gone, Turnure would reportedly spend nights with the president. The brightness of the moon and stars made his eyes appear bluer than the ocean beneath us. It seems almost too good to be true, and I want to make you happy. It ended at that one night.

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