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...Heath regime detoured into Fleet Street last week. It developed that two giant Sunday papers had been involved in questionable Peeping Tom activities while competing for salacious muck. The News of the World (circ. 6,000,000) revealed that one of its photographers had taken sneak pictures of Lord Lambton romping in bed with Prostitute Norma Levy and another doxy. NOW's rival, the Sunday People (circ. 4,600,000) admitted paying for film and tapes of Norma's upper-crust bedroom festivities...
Both papers dealt with Norma's husband and pimp, Colin Levy, who is also wanted for questioning about narcotics offenses. In early May he learned that police evidence implicated him in vice activities. Desperate for getaway money, Levy offered to sell NOW movies and tapes starring Lambton and the girls. The paper was not equipped to process movie film, and it said that taped evidence was not sufficient. So it gave Levy an infrared still camera and a tape recorder and told him to come up with new documentation to support his story. Contrary to the paper...
Thanks in part to his decisive handling of the scandal-and in part also to the diversion of Princess Anne's engagement-Prime Minister Edward Heath was in no danger of being unseated because of the Lambton affair. Nonetheless, there were rumors that trouble for his Conservative government might be brewing in the financial world. Last summer Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Reginald Maudling was obliged to resign after police launched an investigation into the affairs of an architect named John Poulson, who had declared himself bankrupt with debts of $595,000. Maudling's association with Poulson...
...Another, almost accidental victim of the affair was Conservative Columnist Peregrine Worsthorne, who was briefly suspended by the Daily Telegraph after he told a BBC interviewer that the British public "didn't give a f-" about the Lambton case. Worsthorne was soon back in print, but the paper advised him that for the next month he should not appear on television until after the bedtime of British children...
...scrawled across the letter of Harriette Wilson, a Mayfair call girl who threatened to blackmail him with her intimate memoirs. She published (in 1825) and he became Prime Minister (in 1828), recalls H. Montgomery Hyde, a former M.P. who studiously attempts in the Observer to place the current Lord Lambton-Lord Jellicoe sex scandals in historical per spective. Lloyd George was one of Britain's most notorious amorous Prime Ministers. But he was a man of stern principle, to wit: "Love is all right if you lose no time...