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Edward "Ned" Beale McLean (1889 – July 28, 1941) was the publisher and owner of The Washington Post newspaper, from 1916 until 1933. His wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean , was a prominent Washington socialite.
On August 16, 1943, she married Edward Beale McLean Jr., a son of heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean and Edward Beale McLean, heir to The Washington Post. McLean, whose mother had owned the Hope diamond, had previously been married to Ann Carroll Meem, of Washington, D.C., from May 1938 to July 1943.
26 de sept. de 2023 · She had married Edward Beale McLean (also rich) in 1908, and three years later the couple purchased the stone, which was cut from Louis XIV’s “French Blue,” for a cool $180,000 (equivalent to...
In 1908, she married Edward "Ned" Beale McLean, the son of John Roll McLean and heir to The Washington Post and The Cincinnati Enquirer publishing fortune. They had four children, two of whom predeceased their parents:
Three days later, an enterprising Associated Press correspondent tracked down Edward “Ned” Beale McLean, erstwhile owner and former publisher of the Post, at a Montreal hospital, where, as the reporter charitably put it, he was “undergoing treatment.”
In 1908, Evalyn eloped, against her family's best advice, with the handsome heir to the Washington Post fortune, Edward Beale McLean. With $200,000 in "pin" money as a wedding gift from both...
When Edward Beale McLean Jr. was born on 28 July 1918, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, his father, Edward Beale McLean Sr., was 33 and his mother, Evalyn Walsh, was 31. He married Ann Carroll Meem on 6 May 1938, in District of Columbia, United States.
