Anglo-Scottish politician Robert (Bob) Boothby, later Baron Boothby, was BOTD in 1900. Born in Edinburgh, the only son of a prominent banker, he was educated at Eton College and Oxford University. He became a stockbroker, pursuing a political career with the Conservative Party, and was eventually elected to Parliament in 1924. He became private secretary to Winston Churchill (at that time Chancellor of the Exchequer), a post he held for three years. A frequent visitor to Germany in the 1930s, he was an early and outspoken critic of Hitler, advocating a robust military response to the rise of Fascism. During World War Two, he was appointed by Churchill to the Ministry of Food, and devised a national scheme to provide milk to children and nursing mothers. He was forced to resign in 1941 after failing to disclose his financial interests in a scheme to support displaced Czech citizens, and joined the Air Force. After the war, he became an original member of the Council of United Europe, and advocated Britain joining the European Economic Community. Knighted in 1953, he was raised to the peerage in 1958. Boothby’s bisexuality and indiscreet affairs attracted considerable press attention. In 1930, he began an affair with Dorothy Macmillan, the wife of his parliamentary colleague Harold Macmillan. The relationship continued for 30 years, enduring Boothby’s two-year marriage to Diana Cavendish and Macmillan’s tenure as Prime Minister. One of London society’s worst-kept secrets, rumours also circulated that Boothby was the biological father of Dorothy’s daughter Sarah. In the 1960s, Boothby attended sex parties with Tom Driberg and began an affair with East End gangster Ronnie Kray. The Sunday Mirror published a front-page story in 1964 about Boothby’s relationship with Kray (at the time still a criminal offence), threatening to produce an incriminating photo of them. Boothby sued the newspaper for libel; unwilling to publish the photo or defend the claim, the newspaper conceded and paid him substantial damages. Scotland Yard were ordered to drop further investigations into Boothby and Kray, whose relationship continued for a further three years. In 1967, Boothby entered into a marriage of convenience with Wanda Sanna, a Sardinian woman 33 years his junior, allowing him to pursue his existing relationships. He never publicly acknowledged his bisexuality, though was a prominent supporter of homosexual law reform from the 1950s onwards. In an interview with his biographer, he commented “sub-conscious bi-sexuality is a component part of all of us [and] the majority of males pass through a homosexual period. His memoir, Boothby: Recollections of a Rebel, was published in 1978. He died in 1986, aged 86. He was portrayed by John Sessions in the 2015 Krays biopic Legend and by Paul Clayton in TV series The Crown.