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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Who said ‘Everybody likes flattery; and when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel’?
This worked greatly in his favour. Queen Victoria had disliked four-time prime minister William Gladstone but enjoyed Disraeli’s easy flattery. His friendship with the queen was important ...
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William Gladstone: Britain’s Record-Breaking Prime Minister
Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury are some obvious examples. Yet the man who spent the most time as prime minister was none other than William Gladstone. Gladstone was Great ...
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William and Catherine Gladstone
His was the first State funeral since that of William Pitt (Benjamin Disraeli's family having declined the honour for him). Gladstone was the first to have a public lying in state in Westminster Hall ...
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Why Britain became more democratic, 1851–1928
Disraeli persuaded his supporters that the ... extension of the franchise to include the urban working class. In 1864 Gladstone, the future Liberal Prime Minister, had declared that "Every man ...
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Pressure for democratic reform up to 1884
Disraeli persuaded his supporters that the ... extension of the franchise to include the urban working class. In 1864 Gladstone, the future Liberal Prime Minister, had declared that "Every man ...
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Gladstone and Disraeli: Clash of the Titans
Huw Edwards presents a documentary examining the relationship between Victorian prime ministers Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, whose bitter personal rivalry dominated British politics ...