Feeling the Suez Canal flowing through her drawing room

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.'