Sarah Harding
Sarah Harding (Kitty Aldridge) is appointed Francis Urquhart's media adviser in To Play The King. A former Cambridge academic and journalist ("Did you write in The Economist," F.U. Asks, "That 'Francis Urquhart is like the shark: he has to keep moving forwards to stay alive'?"), she then went onto to work for a polling company before becoming the Prime Minister's 'slave', his political adviser.
After being made partially aware of Urquhart's involvement with Mattie Storin, she becomes Urquhart's lover, despite being married, and then starts to become obsessed with him.
As Urquhart wins his tussle against the king, Sarah becomes more aware of some of the dubious aspects of Urquhart's administration and Stamper makes her aware of his involvement in Mattie Storin's death. She is killed in an arranged car bomb on the day after the election on her way to meet one of the king's advisers in order, it is implied, to hand over a tape which implicates Urquhart in Storin's death.
In the novel, her character is very different and her name is Sally Quinn.
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