Word: cliveden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proximity to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. The chat waxed cordial and lasted for two hours. It took place neither at punctilious Buckingham Palace nor in the spacious hotel suite of Henry Ford (TIME, April 16). Royalty & Fords met before the cozy country hearth of famed Viscountess Astor at Cliveden, 20 miles from London. She, vivacious, hospitable, bred in Virginia, but now a British peeress and M. P., seemed the ideal international hostess. Gossip told that the conversation of Her Majesty and Mrs. Ford was at all times stately, that the men eventually shared a chuckle...
Prior to his high tea at Cliveden, Motor Man Ford sojourned idly in London, delaying his projected tour of the British Isles, but found time to extemporize to the press as follows...
Married. Colonel George T. Langhorne, U. S. A., veteran of the Spanish War and onetime assistant to the late Major General Leonard Wood; to Miss Mary K. Waller, of Chicago; at Cliveden, England, the home of Nancy Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, cousin of Colonel Langhorne...