A COLLECTION of photographs and letters giving an insight into David Lloyd George’s relationship with his second wife and their daughter are to be sold at auction.

British Prime Minister between 1916 and 1922, Lloyd George, from Llanystumdwy, remarried two years after the death of his first wife, Margaret, in 1941.

It is widely believed that Lloyd George (1863-1945) fathered his second wife Frances Stevenson’s daughter, Jennifer, born in 1929, and that they had been in an extramarital relationship since 1912.

A proud Welshman, Lloyd George was the first British Prime Minister for whom English was a second language.

Now, a collection of letters and photographs, which, it is claimed, demonstrate the close bond between Lloyd George and Jennifer, who died in 2012, are to go on auction at a prestigious London auction house in March.

Lloyd George, who was educated at Llanystumdwy National School, is said to have had a “hugely complicated but highly affectionate” relationship with Frances and Jennifer, who for may years was not acknowledged as his daughter.

The close bond between Lloyd George and Jennifer is demonstrated through several postcards, addressed to Jennifer from ‘Taid’, Welsh for ‘grandfather’, and the name Lloyd George used in his correspondence with her.

In one postcard from Criccieth, Lloyd George writes: “Here is the river where Taid used to catch fishes when he was a little boy.”

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