This was the cause of some scandal as MacDonald's many critics accused the erstwhile Labour leader of being too friendly with Edith, Lady Londonderry.

Edith, Lady Londonderry, Retrospect.

Lady Londonderry died in September 1906.

Let's pop over and ask Lord Londonderry if he wouldn't let us carve up Lady Londonderry and see how far we get!

Even so, it took 'Ramshackle Mac'(a sobriquet bestowed by his friend Lady Londonderry) a few years after 1931 to achieve the full splendour of his hopelessness.

Largely created by Edith, Lady Londonderry, wife of the 7th Marquess, in the 1920s, it has an unrivalled collection of rare and unusual plants.

The verdict allowed Lady Londonderry to see her husband buried with honour in Westminster Abbey near his mentor, William Pitt.

The 7th Marquess and his wife Edith, Lady Londonderry, are buried here.

One of Lady Londonderry's grandchildren, Annabel Goldsmith, is also a noted London socialite.

It was a happy marriage by all accounts, but tragedy struck when Lady Londonderry died from cancer in 1951 and her husband plunged into depression and alcoholism.