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She was educated at Kensington Preparatory School and then at Downham School, Hatfield Heath, "a fashionable boarding school ... orientated to horses", [4] which she disliked and left early without any formal qualifications.
Nov 18, 2021 · A patchy education, not uncommon among girls of her class, ended when, at 16, she was sent to Paris with two friends and a chaperone to be “finished off”. She intended to paint, but was taken up...
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Nov 16, 2021 · LONDON — Clarissa Eden, an elegant and well-connected insider among a British elite that shaped the country’s empire, stewarded its wars and presided over the onset of post-imperial decline,...
Nov 19, 2021 · Though born into the Churchill dynasty, as an upper class girl she received an incomplete education. At 16 she quit boarding school and headed to Paris, which, she wrote in her memoir, “was like...
Nov 16, 2021 · Eden attended fee-paying schools but completed her education as a teenager without formal qualifications. At that time, young women of her station were expected to play the part of debutantes,...
Oct 21, 2007 · Although she didn't take a degree, she studied at Oxford in the 1930s and was, according to Antonia Fraser, "the dons' delight, because she was beautiful and extremely intellectual". She was...
Oct 25, 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.
