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He is hardened by battle and tempered by the vagaries of life. He is also rough and unrefined -- completely lacking in manners, sophistication or any of the qualities Lady de Barri values. But his arms are strong, his face is handsome and his heart is as bright and gold as the sun at noon.

A heart he gives unreservedly to Lady de Barri. As Emma teaches Sir Robert how to read and dress, how to be gentle and composed, he teaches his sweet chatelaine how to live and love again. Reviews from Goodreads. FictionDB Reviews:. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.

Thank you for respecting the author's work. Heaving his battle-axe with practiced skill, Prince Orlando hacked a path through the final thicket of thorns and stepped through into the princess' bedchamber. His shoulders and back ached, and his jerkin was ripped, his leggings muddy and pierced by rose thorns, but he grinned widely. I have done what no other prince could do, I have won through! He smacked his lips, anticipating the envy of his friends and praise of his parents.

He knew he was a great hunter, and this hunt had been his best. He had heard the stories since he was a boy. Clarissa Spencer-Churchill also worked for the short-lived monthly magazine Contact , established by George later Lord Weidenfeld and edited by Philip Toynbee.


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Weidenfeld was keen to expand into book publishing and Contact , which appeared with a hard cover, offered a means of circumventing post-war paper quotas. As a result of this eclectic early career, she widened her circle of friends and contacts beyond those in society and politics with whom she already had close connections.

As one of Anthony Eden's biographers put it, she was "equally at home in the worlds of Hatfield and Fitzrovia ", [23] while a reviewer of her memoir wrote that "few lives can have touched so many social worlds, or graced them so elegantly". Really she is a most colourless personality". Glimpses of Clarissa Spencer-Churchill's life as a single woman, for example, in diaries and other reminiscences, are quite extensive. A photograph on the dust jacket of her memoir, depicting a young, pensive Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, cigarette in hand, conveyed an alluring and slightly Bohemian image.

The book was generally well received by critics [27] and even generated an engaging "spoof" in the satirical magazine Private Eye "In the early s I married Anthony Eden, a politician of above average height, with a prominent moustache Historian Andrew Roberts described it as "the last great British autobiography of the pre-war and wartime era", [29] while art critic John McEwen remarked on its "witty and elegant restraint".

Having lost both parents by her mid twenties, Clarissa Spencer-Churchill was comparatively independent for a young woman of her time. In later years she remarked to Woodrow Wyatt on "how much more restricted" girls were when she was young, while conceding that she herself had had her first affair at 17 with a "man who was quite well-known and … still alive [in ]". Lady Avon was quoted by Wyatt as having told him that she had resisted the amorous advances of Duff Cooper , wartime Information Minister and British Ambassador in Paris —47, who, thirty years her senior, had also been a friend of her mother: [32] "I was the only woman who he never got more than a peck on the cheek from".

Have you any suggestions? When she was still in her teens James Pope-Hennessy modelled on her the character of Perdita in London Fabric and dedicated the book "To Clarissa". Lady Avon thought the writer and horticulturalist Vita Sackville-West whose husband, the politician and diplomat Harold Nicolson was a friend of her mother "an interesting romantic figure", but felt "dunched" by her "remote and rather superior" manner.

Visiting her at Sissinghurst some years later, she "thought the less of her" for troubling to provide, evidently in a hurry, table napkins that were still damp. Clarissa was a long-standing friend of Ann Fleming, wife of novelist Ian Fleming and lover of Hugh Gaitskell , leader of the Labour Party from to , who had previously been married to Viscount Rothermere.

In later years, as a widow, she was evidently close to the influential solicitor Lord Goodman. Jenkins's official biographer chose, as an example of the broadly-based groups Jenkins would entertain at his home at East Hendred , a small party assembled there in March —Lady Avon, together with the architectural historian James Lees-Milne , Jenkins' publisher Roland Philipps and their wives. Clarissa Spencer-Churchill first met her future husband at Cranborne , Dorset home of the future 5th Marquess of Salisbury in , when she was He was already famous for his elegant attire and Homburg hat, and she was struck by Eden's unusual pinstriped tweed trousers.

There was some further contact during the war, by virtue of the circles in which she and Eden both moved and through her uncle Winston, who became Prime Minister in May As an illustration of her occasional proximity to the centre of power, between meetings of the War Cabinet on 30 May , when the Dunkirk evacuation was at its height, Clarissa was present when Churchill lunched with her parents and the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Butler , then Minister of Education, recalled a dinner party in Eden's flat above the Foreign Office, following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in A more defined relationship with Eden, who was a married man 23 years older than Clarissa, developed gradually after they had sat next to each other at a dinner party in about Eden had been monopolised for much of the meal by a woman on his other side and afterwards, in an undertone, invited Clarissa out to dinner.

Although she was a Roman Catholic and her church was opposed to divorce, Clarissa Spencer-Churchill married Eden, who had become Foreign Secretary again in , in a civil ceremony at Caxton Hall, London on 14 August This event drew large crowds, on a level with those earlier in the year for the wedding of film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding , [8] prompting Harold Macmillan , Minister of Housing, to note that "it's extraordinary how much 'glamour' he [Eden] still has and how popular he is". Until Eden was the only British Prime Minister to have been divorced although he was one of ten to have been married twice [49].

There was criticism of the marriage in the Church Times —"Mr. Harold Macmillan, among others, thought such comparisons unfair: "Miss Churchill cannot be compared with Mrs Simpson , who had had two husbands" [51] [ full citation needed ] However, the marriage also drew the opprobrium of Evelyn Waugh , [52] a convert to Roman Catholicism after divorce from his first wife, who professed to have been in love with Clarissa Spencer-Churchill himself [6] and who, a few years earlier, had repeatedly berated the poet John Betjeman for his Anglo-Catholic beliefs.

On the eve on the wedding, John Colville , a long-time private secretary of Winston Churchill, who in his younger days had been part of the same social "set" as Churchill's niece, recorded in his diary that Clarissa, who was staying at Churchill's home at Chartwell , Kent, was "very beautiful, but The issues relating to the Edens' marriage resurfaced in , when Eden was prime minister.

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Eden could not fail to sympathise with the Princess, all the more so that while his own second marriage had incurred no penalty, either for him or his wife, he had to warn the Princess that my second marriage — to her — would [mean] she would have to renounce her royal rights, functions and income. Historian Hugh Thomas noted that, though "non-political", Lady Avon was interested in foreign affairs, having written a Berlin diary for the literary magazine Horizon. Lady Avon maintained many of her wider acquaintances. They drank vodka and ice and Beaton recorded Lady Avon's observation that her husband was kept awake by the sound of motor scooters , [62] which were growing in popularity among young people in the s.

Lady Avon is said to have murmured, "he can't keep away", as Eden, in Beaton's words, "gangled in like a colt" and proclaimed to Garbo, who had a cigarette holder between her teeth, that he had always wanted to meet her. The Edens' marriage, which lasted until his death on 14 January , was, by all accounts, an extremely happy one. At this point the earldom became extinct. Churchill had told Lady Avon, following her honeymoon in , that he wanted to give up the premiership. Eden's premiership lasted less than two years. As hostess at 10 Downing Street, Lady Avon oversaw the organisation of official receptions.

She brought in new caterers, causing US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to lose a bet with a fellow dinner guest that he knew "exactly what every course is going to be". Lady Avon was not very fond of Chequers , though she did take a keen interest in the garden and grounds, introducing old fashioned roses and increasing the range of fruit trees. However, her successor, Lady Dorothy Macmillan , so keen a horticulturalist that she sometimes gardened at night, removed yellow and white flowers planted by Lady Avon and replaced them with roses of "normal colour".

In January Lady Avon politely requested the occupant of a farm worker's cottage on the estate to hang her washing where it could not be seen by visitors. Coming shortly after attacks in the press on Eden's leadership, the timing was unfortunate. Khrushchev noted that Lady Avon's sober behaviour contradicted briefing from the Soviet Embassy in London that she shared some of Winston Churchill's "traits in the matter of drinking".

Over dinner when, according to his hostess, he ate nothing [6] despite his reputation for eating and drinking greedily [73] , he responded rather bluntly to her question about the range of Soviet missiles that "they could easily reach your island and quite a bit farther".


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    5. He confided later in Bulganin with whom he "had a good laugh over the incident". On 1 November Lady Avon found herself sitting next to Dora Gaitskell , wife of the Labour leader, in the gallery of the House of Commons , whose sitting was suspended, due to uproar, for the first time since In the humiliating aftermath of Suez in , Lady Avon's most famous public remark to a group of Conservative woman that, "in the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing room", was widely reported.

    One example of its durability was a journalist's observation some 54 years later, with reference to the Iraq War of , that "if, as Clarissa Eden remarked, the Suez Canal ran through her drawing room, Iraq and the decisions that flowed from it still haunt [the] Labour [Party] and stir up antipathies and discomforts". Journalist Rachel Johnson , sister of London's mayor Boris Johnson , recalled Lady Avon's remark and added, "But for those of us in West London, any further expansion to Heathrow and the airport really will be in our back yards".

    Yet, as the Countess of Avon so vividly pointed out, it can be impossible to keep public scrutiny at bay altogether".

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    Neither of us should have been, but we were. During this period there were some who thought they detected undue influence by Lady Avon over her husband. In private correspondence just after Suez, the Oxford historian Hugh Trevor-Roper derided Lady Avon's remark about the Suez Canal flowing through her drawing room and declared not only that the "vain and foolish" Eden was "wholly managed" by her, but that she herself would listen only to Cecil Beaton, whom he described with reference to the Svengali of the last Russian Czarina Alexandra as her " Rasputin ".

    Less dramatically, there were suggestions that Eden's touchiness and over-sensitivity to criticism, characteristics frequently remarked upon by colleagues, [91] were exacerbated by Lady Avon described by historian Barry Turner, without explanation, as "equally touchy" [92]. One of Eden's private secretaries claimed that "she had a habit of stirring up Anthony when he didn't need it".

    Thorpe concluded that such imputations arose from a misreading of the Edens' relationship, noting also that, during Suez, the only two people in whom Eden could confide without inhibition were his wife and the Queen. Eden himself paid tribute to his wife's adaptation of their domestic arrangements to meet the "unsteady requirements" of this period, noting that his digestion took less kindly to them.

    A later Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd , has observed that, though he worked hard, Eden did not keep office hours and often spent mornings working in bed. For example, on 29 December , Eden wrote: "Raining and cold. Clarissa says that this is the right way to run the F[oreign]. Lie in bed, direct office by telephone and read Delacroix". Some of Lady Avon's friends may have concealed their true views about Suez.

    For example, Isaiah Berlin assured "dearest Clarissa" that Eden had acted with "great moral splendour", describing his stance as "very brave", "very patriotic" and "absolutely just", [97] while opining to another acquaintance that his policy had been "childish folly". The damage caused by the Suez Crisis to the Prime Minister's already frail health persuaded the Edens to seek a month's rest cure at " Goldeneye ", Ian Fleming's "plain, low roofed" bungalow [] on the north coast of Jamaica.

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    Lady Avon's concern for her husband's health appears to have been decisive in the choice of destination, but it was regarded by many, including Macmillan and the Government's Chief Whip, Edward Heath , as politically unwise. The Edens flew back to England just before Christmas A young witness of their departure from Kingston airport recalled Lady Eden looking "glacial" and her husband, pale.

    When Harold Macmillan was appointed as his successor in preference to R. Butler, Lady Avon wrote to Butler whom two years earlier she had described in her diary as "curiously unnatural" [] that she thought politics "a beastly profession