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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, died ...
Oct 25, 2007 · Clarissa Eden, Cate Haste (Editor) 3.36. 25 ratings3 reviews. 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 ...
Jul 25, 2008 · Clarissa Eden: A Memoir. B y contrast, at 16, Clarissa Eden, née Churchill (she was Winston's niece), was being driven through Paris by Hugo Baring in his green Rolls-Royce for lunch at the ...
Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, obituary. Self-possessed and ‘bewildering’ wife of Anthony Eden who ‘felt the Suez Canal flowing through her drawing room’. Tuesday November 16 2021, 9 ...
Nov 16, 2021 · Clarissa Eden, the Countess of Avon, passed away on Monday at the age of 101 She was born Anne Clarissa Churchill, the only daughter of Churchill's brother In 1952, she married Anthony Eden who ...
Nov 15, 2021 · CLARISSA Eden has died at the age of 101 - more than four decades after her husband, former Prime Minister Anthony Eden. The Countess of Avon - who was also the niece of wartime hero Winston ...
When Eden won the 1955 General Election, Clarissa became the spouse of the most important man in Britain, the hostess at No. 10 and Chequers, and inevitably privy to a multitude of top level secrets. The Suez crisis and Eden's ill health meant that Clarissa shared just four years of Anthony's political life and 18 months as Prime Minister's wife.
