I've been wondering how he and indeed the press would have handled the 'story' if (like plenty of mature professional men of his ilk, with families and reputations etc.) he'd have been providing his long-term mistress with public funds in return for sharing her bed a few times a month? I'm quite certain the press would have been all over a woman like flies, his desire for privacy would have been ridiculed, and she'd have been rendered as some kind of courtesan (gold digging slut) for starters..