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Wiki Commons. When Harold Macmillan was invited to form an administration by the Queen on 10 January 1957 he warned Her Majesty that his government in all likelihood would not last six weeks. In fact, as the Queen reminded him at their final audience in October 1963, his time as Prime Minister lasted over six years, and in terms of the changes ...
Harold Macmillan was the last Prime Minister to be born in the Victorian era. His public image was that of an unflappable Edwardian gentleman. His premiership saw many political successes, not least restoring relations with the US after the rupture of Suez.
Writer: The First World War. Harold MacMillan was born in London in 1894, the grandson of publisher Daniel MacMillan. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he joined the Grenadier Guards in 1914. Serving on the Western front, he was present at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
