THE secret life of Welsh Prime Minister David Lloyd George is set to be exposed by his great-great-grandson in a major new documentary.

Historian Dan Snow admits to having conflicting emotions about his great-great-grandfather, Lloyd George, in a documentary to mark the centenary on 7 December of him becoming the first and, so far, only Welsh Prime Minister.

At the end of the First World War, the solicitor from north Wales, who had become Prime Minister in 1916, was hailed as ‘the man who won the war’ and was hugely popular.

But at the same time, with his wife Margaret living back home in Wales, and after a string of affairs, he was living a double life.

Dan said: “He was also a notorious womaniser, whose long-running relationship with his young secretary meant that he almost had two wives. I’m descended from one of Lloyd George’s daughters, so this other side of his life has always been a bit of a family secret, something we never talked about.”

Having spent many childhood holidays with his family in Criccieth, near Llanystumdwy where there is a dedicated museum to Lloyd George, Dan returns to north Wales for the documentary Dan Snow on Lloyd George: My Great-Great-Grandfather, before retracing his footsteps to Westminster on to the Palace of Versailles, where Lloyd George represented Great Britain and her empire at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

The documentary will be shown on BBC Wales on Wednesday, 7 December at 9pm.

Read the full story in this week’s north editions of the Cambrian News