The Labour grandee, who held office in Downing Street for eight years in the 60s and 70s, has long been subject to rumours regarding his faithfulness to his wife Mary.
Harold Wilson had an extramarital affair during his second term as Prime Minister, it has been revealed.
Harold Wilson pictured with his wife Mary at No10 Downing Street in 1967 during his second stint as prime minister READ MORE How Harold Wilson's long-suffering wife Mary loathed life at No.10 — even before she found herself at the centre of a love triangle Advertisement Breaking his silence after 50 years, Mr Haines told The Times on Wednesday: 'The astonishing thing is that no one else, but me, knew of Janet's affair with Wilson, for which she neither sought any kind of benefit whatsoever.
'She died nursing a secret which never leaked from Downing Street, the most notorious leaky building in Britain.' She is said to have admitted the affair to Mr Haines after he spotted her climbing the stairs to the PM's room in No 10 late one evening in 1974, at the start of his second term in office and when she was his assistant press secretary.
READ MORE She was a bloody, bloody nuisance! The verdict of Harold Wilson's Private Secretary on Marcia Falkender, 'the first woman ever to wield real power in No 10' Advertisement 'I agreed. And what did he do? He left his slippers under her bed,' he wrote.
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