Mary Wilson obituary

An accomplished poet who brushed off the caricatures attracted by her life as the wife of prime minister Harold WilsonIn the widely recorded history of Harold Wilson’s years in British politics, his wife, Mary, appears as a rather shadowy figure, a fleeting form in the background of the latest crisis at No 10, seemingly intent on hastening back to the domestic obscurity she craved and for which she was mercilessly mocked by the satirists of that era. The reality was quite otherwise. Mary W