In this diary, the present Countess Lloyd George has preserved the record of a singular love story: the enduring romance which began in 1912, when Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, invited Miss Stevenson to become a secretary at the Treasury "on his own terms, which were in direct conflict with my essentially Victorian upbringing." -- from the book cover Written between 1914 and 1944 by the secretary and wife of the famous British Prime Minister, the book offers insight into both Lloyd George as a man and statesman and into the politics in which he was involved.