The Prime Minister's Ironing Board And Other State Secrets

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Little Brown
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 286 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Stored in Whitehalls archives are everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of daily life in the corridors of power. Concerned notes from ministers on the subject of the Heir to the Thrones potential brainwashing by Welsh terrorists are shelved alongside worries about housemaids on the wobble at Chequers. Detailed and surprising plans for royal funerals sit beside reports on suspected spies in the showbiz world and bawdy poetry about the monkeys on the Rock of Gibraltar. And Mary Whitehouses complaints about the sex education syllabus nestle next to thank-you notes from prisoner 13260/62, also known as Nelson Mandela. Adam Macqueen, author of the highly acclaimed bestseller Private Eye: The First 50 Years, has searched high and low to present us with some of the most unlikely revelations since the Official secrets act was inaugurated one hundred years ago. Not only about Mrs Thatchers ironing board, but Ted Heaths car, Harold Macmillans bedroom carpet, Imelda Marcos and her son Bong Bongs trip to Buckingham Palace and President Eisenhowers particular problem with Winston Churchills trousers.

ISBN: 9781408704233