Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon - Relationship With Anthony Eden

Relationship With Anthony Eden

Lady Avon first met her future husband at Cranborne, Dorset (home of the future 5th Marquess of Salisbury) in 1936 when she was sixteen. Already famous at the time for his elegant attire and Homburg hat, she was struck by Eden's tweed pinstriped trousers.

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