An interesting look at a woman who rose from a common milliner to become the wife of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister. Born Mary Anne Evans, she had great influence on her two husbands, helping to propel her second husband Disraeli to the highest official post i England. A woman of little culture and no education, yet she charmed the heart out of Disraeli, he who had all London at his feet when he flung himself at hers; he, who – when Queen Victoria offered him a peerage – asked that it would be given instead to her whom he named “the perfect wife”.