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She married three times: her first husband was Randolph Churchill, the son of prime minister Winston Churchill; her third husband was W. Averell Harriman, an American diplomat who also served as Governor of New York.
30 de abr. de 2021 · 23. She Charmed Churchill. Pamela’s friends and family vehemently tried to dissuade her from marrying Randolph. They were undoubtedly aware of his rakish reputation. There was, however, one person in particular with not a single worry about their pending union—Winston Churchill.
16 de mar. de 2024 · The vivacious daughter of a British aristocrat, Pamela Digby saw that her chance of attaining prominence lay in influencing prominent men. In 1939, shortly after World War II broke out, she accepted the marriage proposal of Randolph Churchill, who was expecting to be killed in the fighting.
2 de feb. de 1997 · In 1939, while working at the Foreign Office in London doing French-to-English translations, Pamela met Randolph Churchill, the son of Winston Churchill, and a womaniser and alcoholic, desperate for a wife, having already proposed to eight women in the space of two weeks.
No wonder she found it hard to adjust to peace. Churchill was out of government; her connection to the family was severed with divorce from Randolph in 1946; Harriman had become ambassador to Moscow; and London, despite the victory, felt as restrictive as her Dorset girlhood.
21 de abr. de 2017 · Captivated. On 3 November 1896, Churchill wrote his mother: “I was introduced yesterday to Miss Pamela Plowden—who lives here. I must say that she is the most beautiful girl that I have ever seen— ‘Bar none’ as the Duchess [of Marlborough] Lily says.
4 de abr. de 2021 · Pamela Digby, photographed in 1938, before her brief courtship and tumultuous marriage (1939-1945) with Randolph Churchill. In the spring of 1941, Averell Harriman, Roosevelt’s special envoy...