Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, who died on November 15, was descended from the Churchill dynasty and wife of British prime minister, Anthony Eden.
A clever woman, she spent some of the war years decoding telegrams in the British Foreign Office.
During the 1956 Suez crisis she famously said she “ felt sometimes that the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing room.'
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Must have been a very damp house.
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