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18. Sept. 2008 · As the spouse of the most important man in Britain, the hostess at No. 10 and Chequers, Clarissa Eden was inevitably privy to a multitude of top-level secrets. The Suez crisis and Eden's ill health meant that she shared just four years of Anthony's political life and eighteen months as Prime Minister's wife. This individual, discriminating and honest memoir is her first account of ...
Born Clarissa Churchill in 1920, her uncle was the great Winston, and when she married the 55-year-old Eden, then Foreign Secretary, at Caxton Hall register office in 1952, there were crowds as big as the gathering that had cheered Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding's wedding there six months earlier. A renowned beauty, she was at home with her mother's liberal intellectual circle, and mixed ...
2. Dez. 2021 · Clarissa Eden, perhaps best known for being Winston Churchill’s niece and Anthony Eden’s wife, as well as a much-admired socialite, has died aged 101.
25. Okt. 2007 · Clarissa Eden was born Clarissa Churchill in 1920, the daughter of Winston Churchill’s younger brother Jack and Lady Gwendeline Bertie, known as ‘Goonie’. Her upbringing and education were typical for an upper-class girl of that time. She was sent for a few years to Kensington High School – ‘the only sensible schooling I got’ – but was then packed off to a fashionable boarding ...
30. Okt. 2008 · Paperback. $6.93 16 Used from $2.96. In 1955, at the astonishingly young age of 34, Clarissa Eden entered No. 10 Downing Street as the wife of the new Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Born Clarissa Churchill in 1920, her uncle was the great Winston, and when she married the 55-year-old Eden, then Foreign Secretary, at Caxton Hall register office in ...
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Clarissa Eden (née Spencer-Churchill), Countess of Avon. by Cecil Beaton. halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 15 June 1955. NPG x193408. Use this image. Memoirist; second wife of 1st Earl of Avon; daughter of John Spencer-Churchill and Lady Gwendoline Spencer-Churchill.
Her separation from Eden increased in 1941, when the family moved to Binderton House, near Chichester, Sussex, while Eden, to meet his wartime responsibilities, lived in a flat in the Foreign Office. The marriage was dealt its "final blow" when the couple's eldest son, Pilot Officer Simon Eden, predeceased his parents after being reported missing in action in Burma in June 1945.
