Two years later, French President Charles de Gaulle vetoed British entry on the grounds that he doubted London’s commitment ...

Harold Macmillan loved to share gossip with the Queen when he served as prime minister between 1957 and 1963. Macmillan, who was a member of the Conservative party, first found it difficult to ...

Why didn’t the Prime Minister question Profumo himself at any time? Macmillan’s lame answer: he assumed that Profumo would speak more freely to others, and furthermore such an interrogation ...

Vicky’s heyday coincided with Harold Macmillan’s rise and fall as a Prime Minister. And it was while at the Evening Standard that Vicky produced his most famous caricature of Macmillan, ...

Despite these challenges, Macmillan's tenure is often remembered ... Despite his promising start, Eden's legacy as Prime Minister is largely defined by the Suez debacle, overshadowing his earlier ...

Formalisation: The formalisation of PMQs as a weekly event started under former prime minister Harold Macmillan in the early 1960s. Initially, it was an informal arrangement where the prime ...

Harold Macmillan was a city man while the Queen ... The extremely divisive prime minister was said to find the traditional September weekend at Balmoral ‘painful’. One observer wrote ...

And it was a Conservative prime minister and a Democrat president with seemingly nothing in common, the stuffy and diffident Harold Macmillan and the charismatic John F Kennedy, that repaired the ...