In fact, Sukova was comfortable enough in a small group, or relaxing with old friends. And he was at his happiest with the young, with his son Peter and daughter-in-law Steph and particularly his two small grandchildren Nellie and Ed and their friends, all of whom adored him. Tessa had converted two of the bedrooms in their private quarters into a nursery wing, and if Nellie and Ed were in residence that’s where she knew she would find their grandfather.
Tessa knew that it was the lack of pressure that brought her husband out of himself. But when it came to matters of substance, the sort of issues that were stock in trade for the President of the United States, he preferred to be in his own space – though paradoxically, for someone who was the opposite of gregarious, one of the quirks of
