Boris Johnson's best kept secrets

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Boris Johnson has tried to divert attention to the coronavirus

, prompting the British to behave "without fear but with common sense".

But all the attention was taken on Sunday by the preview of

("The Player"), the book that disembowels

best-kept secrets

, starting with the abusive nature of his father (Stanley) who broke his nose. mother (Charlotte) and condemned her four children to unhappiness.

Boris Johnson dismissed rumors about his health

after contracting the coronavirus

, although he left aside family issues in his interview on the BBC.

Sunk in the polls and questioned by his own party,

for their restrictions on the coronavirus, anticipated "a harsh winter" and asked for patience "to turn the scientific equation around."

In the political lies, as the backdrop to the Conservative Party's virtual conference, however, nothing else was discussed: the unauthorized and contrived biography of Tom Bower, the investigative journalist who has already exposed Tony Blair or the Prince Charles,

.

These are some of his most talked about and anticipated revelations in

.

The broken nose.

"She hit me, broke my nose, made me think I deserved it ...".

Charlotte Fawcett, Boris's artist mother, speaks openly for the first time of the abuse suffered at the hands of her ex-husband.

She was admitted badly to St. John & St. Elizabeth Hospital in London, her four children were told that she had hit the car door.

But Boris knew the truth, and

, even though he has always featured as his "

", for his obvious physical resemblance, his contagious energy and his sense of humor (not to mention his sexual promiscuity ).

King of the world.

Charlotte remembers how her eldest son was fascinated with ancient empires as a child and proclaimed at the age of three his will to one day be "king of the world."

"Many times I have thought that with that desire he wanted to be invincible and protect himself from the pain of seeing his mother disappear from his life for eight months," confesses Charlotte, who spent a long time at London's Maudsley Hospital with severe depression when she was 32 years.

She divorced Stanley in 1979 and remarried an American professor, Nicholas Wahl.

At forty he was diagnosed with Parkinson's.

He was widowed and now lives with a caregiver in Notting Hill, far from the spotlight.

The lonely boy

.

"Why did you have us?" Was the direct question Boris asked his father when the divorce was finalized.

Without the maternal warmth, with Stanley absent (she married a second time, had two other children), Boris felt an "emotional hole" difficult to fill.

His time at Eton (where Cameron also studied) made him distrustful and hypercompetitive with men.

From a very young age, he relied on women emotionally to appease his depressive tendencies.

Upon his arrival in Oxford, to mask his problems, he invented a "character" and became a true

.

Three were three

.

Allegra Mostyn-Owen, his college girlfriend, became his first wife in 1987 and witnessed his split into three people, as she herself tells Tom Bowler: "Boris is the public figure, but privately it was Al (his first name) and then there was also Alexander, a mix of the two. Did I actually get to live with Boris? I'll never know. "

Petronella Wyatt, the outgoing deputy director of

who became his lover and became pregnant with him (she had a miscarriage), described him as follows: "Boris has more eddies than a hot tub."

Marina's anchor

.

Johnson married his second wife, attorney Marina Wheeler, on

in 1993

and two weeks after his separation from Allegra.

In time, she would not only be the mother of her four children, but the anchor of his eventful life and the architect in the shadow of his first political success, when he was elected mayor of London.

Boris was however unable to overcome the powerful influence of the father and fell again and again into the tentacles of infidelity.

His most famous romance was with the art expert Helen Macintyre, with whom he is credited with having a daughter out of wedlock.

also delves into Boris's adventure with the American entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri and reveals how in 2018 he even sent him one last message: "I miss you and I need you."

Opportunities and disasters

.

"All disasters are temporary," Boris went on to say of his busy personal life, in a quote that may well translate to his predilection for political storms, including his battle to consummate Brexit.

"There are really no disasters, only opportunities, and indeed opportunities for new disasters."

The wine stain

.

The Carrie Symonds story began as a flirtation in 2018, when Boris was head of the

, and ended up turning into something serious.

Her umpteenth love affair made her enemies with her own hujos and also coincided with Marina's diagnosis of cervical cancer.

Johnson's political rise was proportionally inverse to the breakdown of his own family.

By the way, the famous quarrel with Carrie Symonds that led to the neighbors' call to the police was not caused by a wine stain on the sofa, but probably by a delay by Boris in his visit to the hospital with his convalescent ex-wife.

Deep unhappiness.

"Boris's bravado is a way of masking his deep unhappiness," concludes Tom Brower in

, which dedicates its final chapters to the

toxic relationship

with strategist Dominic Cummings and his hesitant reaction before going into a "state of panic. "by the caution of its scientists.

Boris definitely lost his balance after contracting the virus and becoming a father for the sixth time (again following Stanley's example), but

leaves the possibility of redemption open at the end in the middle of the latest "disaster."

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