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3 giorni fa · In the interwar years, it was home to the Viscount and Viscountess Astor. While the Prince was the tenant of the Fort, it was his mistresses who acted as hostesses, first Thelma Furness and later Wallis Simpson. Nancy Astor was the chatelaine of Cliveden and was regarded as one of the most prominent political hostesses of her day.
1 giorno fa · As the home of Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place of the Cliveden Set of the 1920s and 1930s—a group of political intellectuals. Later, during the early 1960s, when it was the home of the 3rd Viscount Astor, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo affair.
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4 giorni fa · Discover life events, stories and photos about John Jacob Astor 1st Baron Astor of Hever (1886–1971) of Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States.
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1 giorno fa · John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family.
1 giorno fa · He was, as such, a natural target for Cockburn, who from 1937 published stories about ‘The Cliveden Set’, referring to a fictional version of a real social group centred on the Tory MP Nancy Astor and her husband Waldorf, who was the second Viscount Astor and owner of the Observer newspaper, and including Dawson, Lord Lothian (Philip Kerr), Lord Halifax (Edward Wood) and other upper-class ...
3 giorni fa · On his father's death in 1952, he inherited his title, becoming the 3rd Viscount Astor. Astor took his seat in the House of Lords, forcing a by-election in Wycombe, which was won by the Conservative candidate John Hall. During the 1963 Profumo Affair Astor was accused of having an affair with Mandy Rice-Davies.
4 giorni fa · Tactical magnification. Since 1933, the demand for anti-German policies had been justified mainly by two methods. The first had been to purport Hitler’s eagerness to suddenly attack Britain from the air. Later a range of other countries were said to be threatened too.
