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May 27, 2021 · A Snob’s Progress. A new edition of Henry “Chips” Channon’s diaries gives fascinating glimpses of homosocial desire in a hectic narrative of aristocratic and political life. “I am very fond of Chips,” the London society hostess Maud Cunard declared in 1926, “and so is everyone else.” “I seem,” Chips himself remarked a few ...
Jun 7, 2022 · Henry Channon left over £30million to his wife and four children in his will Henry's death at age 51 is another example of the 'Guinness curse' The Guinness wealth came from his grandfather, U.S ...
Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon's extraordinary diaries, first published in 1967, are now considered a modern classic. The years covered in this volume, 1934-53, recall a vanished world where Channon's priviliged orbit circled every social and public figure of the day in a round of parties, balls, country-house weekends and endless gossip.
Mar 3, 2021 · Sir Henry (Chips) Channon was born in Chicago in 1897 (although he claimed 1899 as the year of his birth, until the true facts were exposed - to his embarrassment - in the Sunday Express). The son of a wealthy businessman, he accompanied the American Red Cross to Paris in 1917, was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, and then settled in ...
One might just as well have a discreet soul'Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon's extraordinary diaries, first published in 1967, are now considered a modern classic. The years covered in this volume, 1934-53, recall a vanished world where Channon's privileged orbit circled every social and public figure of the day in a round of parties, balls, country ...
Jan 1, 2021 · Henry Channon, Simon Heffer (Editor) 4.16. 218 ratings49 reviews. The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries. Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his ...
Feb 28, 2016 · Henry (Chips) Channon. Henry (Chips) Channon was born in Chicago on 7th March 1897. He was educated in the United States and France and in served in Europe with the American Red Cross during the First World War. After the war he returned to the United States for a short time.
