Peer, politician, author, perjurer... Lord Archer is a man with many sides. Guy Kelly pops by his penthouse on the eve of his 80th birthday ‘What are you, about three and a half years old?
And you’re doing all the major interviews!’ I have been sitting in Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare’s gilded beige penthouse for no more than 240 seconds, but there it is already, a classic Archer triptych: gentle insult, wrapped inside a boast, hidden deep within a schmooze.
And critics say he can’t be economical with language... Before we get going, a little on the penthouse, storied though it is, because he’d like that.
Archer and his beloved wife of nearly 54 years, Dame Mary, have lived here, on the 13th floor of a tower overlooking the Thames,
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