Jeffrey Archer: successful novelist, disgraced politician and convicted liar
Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.
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""It was love at first sight for me, but I don't think it was for her.""
— Jeffrey Archer , Politician
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Jeffrey Archer was a bestselling UK novelist and a scandal-plagued politician.
Reporter for the Times who investigated Archer's misuse of charity expenses.
Jeffrey Archer's mother, the first woman journalist on the Weston Mercury.
Wife of Jeffrey Archer and a chemistry student.
Jeffrey Archer's father, who was a decorated hero of the First World War.
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Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.
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