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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.
Nov 16, 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...
Nov 18, 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 that...
Nov 19, 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...
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Dec 2, 2021 · Clarissa Eden, perhaps best known for being Winston Churchill’s niece and Anthony Eden’s wife, as well as a much-admired socialite, has died aged 101. Eden was born to Lady Gwendoline Bertie...
Nov 28, 2021 · On a grey November afternoon, in the presence of a small congregation of family and close friends, Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, niece of Sir Winston, was finally laid to rest next to her husband, Anthony Eden, having been a widow for more than forty-four years.
