alternatehistory.com

In OTL:
Angela Brigid Lansbury was born (16 October 1925) in the borough of Poplar, London (England!). Her mother was an actress, but her father and grandfather were socialist politicians.

Father - Isaac Edgar Lansbury (1887–1935), known as Edgar Lansbury, was elected to Poplar Council in 1912 representing both the Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1924, he became a member of the Communist Party’s Central Committee. From 1924 to 1925, he served as Mayor of Poplar, the UK's second Communist mayor

Grandfather - George Lansbury (1859 - 1940) was a socialist, Christian pacifist and newspaper editor. He was a Member of the UK Parliament 1910-1912 and 1922-1940, rising to become Leader of the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935.

With the fall of France in 1940 and the onset of the German bombing campaign against London, Angela’s mother took her and her two brothers to Montreal, New York and eventually Los Angeles. Choosing to follow her mother into a stage career, Angela’s first film appearance was as a maid in Gaslight (1944), for which she received an Academy Award nomination.
She starred in the TV series ‘Murder She Wrote’ from 1984 to 1996.

What if she had chosen to follow her father and grandfather, enter politics and eventually become the United Kingdom's first woman Prime Minister?

(POD could be either not leaving the UK for America or choosing to return to the UK at the end of WW2)
Top