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  1. Jul 30, 2021 · John Stonehouse's mistress Sheila Buckley is pictured today (left) some 47 years after she was at the centre of the rogue MP's spectacular downfall when he faked his own death. Ms Buckley...

    • Who Was John Stonehouse?
    • Who Is Sheila Buckley?
    • Was John Stonehouse A Spy?

    Born in 1925, John Stonehouse was active in the co-operative movement and a longtime anti-colonial campaigner who was elected as a Labour MP in 1957. Once tipped as a future prime minister, he rose to become minister of aviation, the final postmaster general and a privy counsellor advising the Queen. On 20 November 1974, he rolled his clothes into ...

    Ms Buckley worked as Stonehouse’s parliamentary secretary while he was an MP. The pair had an affair which became public after Stonehouse’s attempt to fake his death emerged. She stuck by him through his time in prison, and remained with him until his death. Today she lives alone in a £700,000 detached home in Romsey on the River Test, the Daily Ma...

    Stonehouse was accused of being a spy for Czechoslovakia in 1969 by Josef Frolík, a defector from the Czech secret services. The allegation was levelled after the MP made a series of visits to the country, which was then part of the Soviet Eastern Bloc, but he defended himself and remained in office. However, in The Defence of the Realm: The Author...

  2. Jan 5, 2023 · But what happened to Stonehouses second wife, and where is she now? Stonehouse and Buckley stayed together following his arrest and sentencing, and Buckley would regularly visit him in prison.

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  3. Jan 5, 2023 · John Stonehouse and Sheila Buckley - played by Emer Heatley in Stonehouse - were married in 1981. The following year, Sheila gave birth to their son, James William John, the following year.

  4. Jan 2, 2023 · Sheila Buckley was 21 when she met John Stonehouse, 22 years her senior, and began working for him. Sheila even moved out to Australia with John after he faked his death, and the pair later got married and had a son together. They reportedly remained together until John’s death in 1988.

  5. Stonehouse married Barbara Joan Smith in 1948, and they had two daughters, Jane and Julia, and a son, Mathew. After their divorce in 1978, Stonehouse married his mistress, Sheila Elizabeth Buckley (nee Black), [34] in Hampshire on 31 January 1981. In December 1982 their son James William John was born.

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  7. Jan 1, 2023 · She was the glamorous young brunette whose love affair with rogue MP and Communist traitor John Stonehouse scandalised British politics. Mrs Buckley returns home after being greeted by a man...