Spouses of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom - Mary Anne Disraeli, Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, Cherie Blair, Denis Thatcher (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Mary Anne Disraeli, Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, Cherie Blair, Denis Thatcher, Spouses of the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Samantha Cameron, Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, Sarah Brown, Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, Lady Dorothy Macmillan, Audrey Callaghan, Baroness Callaghan of Cardiff, Charlotte, Lady Campbell-Bannerman, Norma Major, Catherine Gladstone, Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx, Beatrice Beckett, Anne Chamberlain, Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute, Hester Pitt, Countess of Chatham, Lucy Baldwin, Countess Baldwin of Bewdley, Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel, Catherine Walpole, Violet Attlee, Countess Attlee, Margaret Lloyd George, Maria, Lady Walpole, Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury, Margaret MacDonald, Joan Canning, 1st Viscountess Canning, Harriet Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Excerpt: Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon (nee Spencer-Churchill, 28 June 1920) is the widow of Sir Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897-1977), who was British Prime Minister from 1955-1957. She married Eden in 1952, becoming Lady Eden in 1954 when he was made a Knight of the Garter and Countess of Avon in 1961 on his elevation to the peerage. Her memoir, sub-titled From Churchill to Eden, was published in 2007 under the name of Clarissa Eden. Lady Avon (by which title she is referred to throughout this article) is the daughter of Major Jack Spencer-Churchill (1880-1947), the younger brother of Winston Churchill, and Lady Gwendoline ("Goonie") Bertie (1885-1941), daughter of the 7th Earl of Abingdon. They married in 1908. Lady Avon is thus the niece of Winston Churchill, who was Prime Minister during the Second World War (1940-5) and from 1951-5, and granddaughter of Lord Randolph C...