Early Life
Lady Avon was born at her family's home in the Cromwell Road, Kensington, London. She was educated at Kensington High School and then at Downham, a "fashionable boarding school ... orientated to horses", which she disliked and left early without any formal qualifications. Lady Avon felt also the need to get away from home – "I just wanted to get out from under the whole thing of being loved too much".
Read more about this topic: Clarissa Eden, Countess Of Avon
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