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30 ott 2008 · Paperback. $6.93 16 Used from $2.96. 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 Caxton Hall register office in ...
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16 nov 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 ...
10 ott 2022 · As well as commissioning two authorised biographies of Eden, Clarissa published her own memoir in 2007. She also continued to expand her art collection, acquiring everything from French silver to modern British sculpture, until her death in November 2021. ‘This sale represents a very particular and considered taste,’ notes Vickers.
Clarissa Eden (née Spencer-Churchill), Countess of Avon. by Cecil Beaton. halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 15 June 1955. NPG x193408. Use this image. Memoirist; second wife of 1st Earl of Avon; daughter of John Spencer-Churchill and Lady Gwendoline Spencer-Churchill.
19 ott 2007 · Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, is the widow of Sir Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister from 1955-57. The second time we met, nearly ten years later, we hardly spoke. I sat next to him at a ...
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1955 until his resignation in 1957. Achieving rapid promotion as a young Conservative member of Parliament, he became foreign secretary aged 38 ...
