Jeffrey Archer: successful novelist, disgraced politician and convicted liar
Some people mistakenly assumed he had gone to the somewhat more prestigious Wellington College in Berkshire, and he did little to correct them.Archer's academic career was undistinguished, and he left school with three O-levels. He did, however, embark on a fitness regime designed to improve his physique after his originally skinny frame led to taunts from fellow pupils.After school, he drifted. He also married Mary Weeden, a chemistry student whose beauty had attracted a long list of suitors.
- ▪Some people mistakenly assumed he had gone to the somewhat more prestigious Wellington College in Berkshire, and he did little to correct them.Archer's academic career was undistinguished, and he left school with three O-levels.
- ▪He did, however, embark on a fitness regime designed to improve his physique after his originally skinny frame led to taunts from fellow pupils.After school, he drifted.
- ▪He also married Mary Weeden, a chemistry student whose beauty had attracted a long list of suitors.
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- ▪ Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86 — The Guardian — World
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Jeffrey Archer: successful novelist, disgraced politician and convicted liarImage source, AFP via Getty ImagesBySam WoodhousePublished5 minutes agoAs many have observed, Jeffrey Archer, who has died aged 86, led a life as colourful as the plot in one of his novels.He was, at one time or other, a senior Conservative politician, a best-selling author, a peer of the realm, and a convicted perjurer.Possessed of huge drive, vast wealth and immense personal charm, Archer bounced back from disaster and, more than once, rebuilt a shattered life.But for all his talents, he will be remembered as a man affected by a defective moral compass, whose public humiliation was entirely self-inflicted.Image source, Dave Benett Collection via Getty ImagesImage caption, Lord and Lady Archer photographed in…
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