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Pamela Beryl Harriman (née Digby; March 20, 1920 – February 5, 1997), also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English-born American political activist for the Democratic Party, diplomat, and socialite.
- She Had Humble Beginnings. Pamela Harriman, born Pamela Digby, entered the world on March 20, 1920. Her parents, Edward and Constance, laid their firstborn to rest in an interesting crib—the bottom drawer of a wooden chest.
- She Was On Her Own. Pamela Harriman got her first taste of travel when she was only 18 months old. Her parents uprooted the entire family and moved to Australia—a land of better tax advantages and exotic fauna.
- She Had Interesting Tutors. Pamela Harriman learned her first words, not from doting parents, but rather... from a doting parrot. Yes, a chatty white pet parrot taught her to speak, but also instilled in her a love for mimicry that she later used to emulate accents such as Winston Churchill’s.
- She Jumped Hurdles. By 1924, the Digby family had settled back into their large family home at Minterne, enjoying every comfort of an upper-class existence.
May 10, 2024 · Pamela Harriman was a British-born socialite and American political figure who made a name for herself first as the wife or lover of a succession of prominent wealthy and powerful men and later, in the United States, as a doyenne of the Democratic Party.
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Pamela Harriman, the United States Ambassador to France, a leading figure in the Democratic Party and for decades one of the most vivacious women on the international scene, died yesterday at the...
Originally published in Issue 40 of The Rake, Stuart Husband writes that Pamela Harriman, a woman of aristocratic stock, blazed a trail through the international scene of her era, enticing powerful men like moths to a particularly feisty flame.
Feb 6, 1997 · Pamela Harriman, an English baron’s daughter who was confidant, lover and wife to some of the wealthiest and most powerful men of this century, and who came to be an important figure in her own...
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Sep 28, 2015 · Averell Harriman sits with then fiancee Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward shortly before their marriage in 1971, many decades after their original affair.
