Keeley Hawes stars alongside her real-life husband Matthew Macfadyen in new ITV drama Stonehouse, which tells the story of government minister John Stonehouse, who attempted to fake his own death in 1974. Matthew plays the MP in the three-parter, while Keeley is his wife Barbara. Here, she reveals more…
Why did John Stonehouse attempt to fake his own death?
He found himself in all sorts of trouble, politically, financially and he’d also been having an affair with his secretary Sheila Buckley. He was under a lot of pressure. He used a dead man’s identity to vanish and start a new life. Mental health wasn’t really
