In August 1991 Sir Peter Harding was flown down to an international sporting event which had a significant RAF involvement in it (and I was team manager at this stage). I met him off the helicopter (well, a Gp Capt did and I stood behind him) and he was accompanied by a women who was not his wife. He seemed quite animated around her. The Gp Capt, looking a bit flustered explained she was a researcher 'from the House of Commons' and not to mention it. Similarly, the woman in question was kept out of the publicity photos.
I can't remember if it was Lady Buck, when the scandal broke several years later, but I often wondered who this much younger woman was, and why she was being taken to official events.
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