A perfect 10
We might have travelled in time and are back to post number 2 or this is going to be the most porny post yet. No one knows. Or no one knew. Anyway:
Here are your guidelines, as usual.
1) All fills for prompts of the earlier prompt posts go in the post the prompt was posted in. No re-posting or splitting up prompts and fills.
2) Self-prompt ( Read more... )
Here are your guidelines, as usual.
1) All fills for prompts of the earlier prompt posts go in the post the prompt was posted in. No re-posting or splitting up prompts and fills.
2) Self-prompt ( Read more... )
Was ever a more unlikely coalition formed than that between Lord North and myself? The one common principle we shared was enmity to Lord Shelburne - that alone united us, but it was enough to drive him from office, and William with him. Naturally, I was triumphant. The King, surely, had now no alternative but to call upon us to form the next government. Together we had the majority, after all, and the confidence of the House of Commons, and no rival faction could touch us. But for weeks no call came, and Westminster was awash with rumour as the indignant sovereign sought desperately for some arrangement that should not include me. I heard it said he even thought of turning to William in the hope that he might be induced to take up the reins ( ... )
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