Word: cliveden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Viscount Astor, 58, son of Virginia-born Lady Astor, Britain's first woman to sit in Parliament and hostess of the sparkling intellectual "Cliveden Set" at the family estate in the '30s, himself a onetime M.P., who rented a cottage to Osteopath Stephen Ward in 1956 and thereby spawned a demimonde that featured Call Girl Christine Keeler until it collapsed amid the Profumo scandal of 1963; of an apparent heart attack; in Nassau, the Bahamas...
...Belle. She took the abuse with gallantry and grace. In fact, as she said, "I abhor Hitler and Hitlerism." On one occasion when Hitler's Ambassador, Joachim von Ribbentrop, greeted her with the Nazi salute, she snapped: "Stop that nonsense with me!" During World War II, she ran Cliveden as a 1,600-bed hospital for wounded Canadian soldiers, also assisted her husband in his duties as Lord Mayor of Plymouth, which was savagely bombed. "You can kill us," she challenged the Nazis, "but you can't scare...
...Cliveden Chatelaine. One of the five "handsome Miss Langhornes" of Virginia society, Nancy, barely 18, plunged into an unhappy six-year marriage to a drunkard that made her a lifelong crusader for Prohibition. She was 27 and at the height of her beauty when she married Waldorf Astor, whose father, the 1st Viscount and fabulously wealthy great-grandson of John Jacob, had settled in England. For a wedding present, her father-in-law-Nancy called him "Old Moneybags"-presented the couple with several million pounds and Cliveden, a 300-year-old Thames-side estate. Now the home of her eldest...
...Cliveden was in the news for very different reasons. A born hostess, Nancy loved to bring together weekend guests of all nationalities, religions and political convictions. Nonetheless, because the Astors' most frequent visitors included top Tories and the editors of the two Astor newspapers, the London Times and the Observer, the Cliveden set became a sinister synonym for the forces in Britain that believed in making a deal with Hitler. Though actually Prime Minister Chamberlain fervently believed in appeasement with no persuasion from his hostess, Nancy Aster's failure to accept the final futility of his policy caused...
Born. To William Waldorf, 3rd Viscount Astor, 56, son of Virginia-born Nancy Astor, who in 1963 made the family's Cliveden estate almost as famous for profumation as it was for pro-Munich politics before World War II, and Lady Astor, 33, former model Bronwen Pugh: their second child (his fourth), second daughter; at Cliveden...