The Crown Anthony Eden Drugs
Its effects may have contributed to edens near collapse both physically and emotionally and his resignation as premier the following year.
The crown anthony eden drugs. The penultimate scene of the seriess first season shows an unwell eden passed out from a drug injection as newsreel footage of then colonel gamal abdel nasser of egypt amir boutrous burns. Anthony eden succeeded winston churchill as british prime minister in 1955. Anthony eden 1897 1977 the heir apparent.
Eden was addicted to morphine and benzedrine which was a commercial brand of amphetamines. To take the edge off the post op failure eden developed a serious morphine and benzedrine bennys or amphetamines addiction. The side effects of the drug included insomnia restlessness and mood swings all which eden exhibited during the suez canal crisis.
During the suez crisis of 1956 an overwrought eden lived on benzedrine. By the time he became prime minister he had quit morphine but was still heavily addicted to benzedrine. He was able to sporadically kick the morphine habit but taking bennys became part of his daily routine.