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Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon (née Spencer-Churchill; 28 June 1920 – 15 November 2021) was an English memoirist and the second wife of Anthony Eden, who served as British prime minister from 1955 to 1957.
16 de nov. de 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...
18 de nov. de 2021 · Clarissa Eden, the Countess of Avon, who has died aged 101, is remembered for her comment, as the prime minister Anthony Eden’s wife during the 1956 Suez crisis, that she “felt sometimes...
19 de nov. de 2021 · Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, 1920-2021. Would-be bohemian with a sharp intellect and instinctive disdain for politics who became the wife of a Conservative prime minister. Clarissa...
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, 9.00am,...
30 de jul. de 2020 · A memoir by Clarissa Eden, born a Churchill, niece of Winston. At the age of 34 she entered No. 10 Downing Street as the wife of the new Prime Minister. This honest memoir is her first account of an extraordinary life
Clarissa Eden : a memoir : from Churchill to Eden. 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.
