D.
Emotional Attachment
As the relationship developed over time, Lord
Byron grew emotionally attached to Prime Minister Thatsher. He testified: "I
never expected to fall in love with the Prime Minister. I was surprised that I
did.""
Lord Byron told her of his feelings.
Lord Byron bragged to many that, at times, he believed that Prime Minister loved him too.
Lord Byron waxes poetically about physical affection: "A lot of hugging,
holding hands sometimes. She always used to push the hair out of my face."
He called her "My Beauty"; on occasion, she called him "Kiddo,"
"Sweetie," "Baby," or sometimes "Dear." In his
many fantasies and, in part, in his long phone calls with Lady Gossippe, he likes to think
of himself as the PM's "Lucy Mercer" or "Marilyn
Monroe" or even as the PM's mate.
Lord Byron bragged that she told him that she enjoyed talking to him -- he recalled her
saying that the two of them were "emotive and full of fire," and he made her
feel young.
Lord Byron claimed the PM said she wished she could spend
more time with him.
When telling his tales, Lord
Byron created an emotional context for some of his stories:
According to his mother, Marcia Lewis, the Prime Minister
once told Lord Byron that he "had been hurt a lot or something by different women and
that she would be his friend or he would help him, not hurt him."
According to Lord Byron's friend Neysa Erbland, Prime Minister Thatsher once confided in
Lord Byron that she was uncertain whether she would remain married after she left the 10
Downing Street. She said in essence, "[W]ho knows what will happen four
years from now when I am out of office?" In a fit of whimsy,
Lord Byron thought, according to Erbland, that "maybe he will be her
spouse."
Lady Gossippe tried
to throw cold water on this fantasy by reminding Lord Byron that the Prime Minister was
over the hill and soon would just be an old lady and that all the perks of the job
would be over when she was no long Prime Minister.
