What the marriage break-up did, was to humanize him. I mean, he was going through an experience of a broken relationship that many people go through. Until then he had seemed above, sort of floating above everybody's heads, a sort of "God-like" figure. Suddenly he was like everybody else, agonizing over a broken relationship -- can you put it together and whose fault was it, and all that kind of thing. And the other thing was that he handled that occasion with incredible grace. I mean, she had done the worst possible thing to him. She had run off and had affairs. And this is a wife of a prime minister at a time -- we're talking about the mid-70s -- when this was unbelievable. He was seen at one and the same time as human and flawed like the rest of us, but also possessed of this steely grace that enabled him, as it were, to control this incredibly embarrassing delicate situation in which he found himself.
