Edward Baldwin’s only written communication from Stanley Baldwin, his grandfather or GF, was a humorous postcard from the French Alpine spa of Aix-les-Bains, his usual summer destination. It was dated August 21, 1938, and addressed in mauve ink to the seven-month-old “Monsieur Edouard Baudouin”. GF.”Edward was not quite ten when Stanley died. His grandfather had been leader of the Conservative Party from 1923 to 1937, served three terms as prime minister, and was one of the few party leaders to depart of his own volition. He was the youngest of the grandchildren, yet recalled how “I probably absorbed as much or more of his ethos and personality [as his older cousins] by virtue of my

Source: The Times June 23, 2021 22:52 UTC