Pamela Harriman

Pamela Beryl Harriman ( born March 20, 1920 in Farnborough, Hampshire as Pamela Beryl Digby, † February 5, 1997 in Paris) was an English -born socialite and U.S. diplomat.

Her only child, Winston Spencer Churchill, is a grandson of Winston Churchill.

Life

Pamela Digby comes from a noble family. Your great-great aunt was the adventuress Jane Digby. Pamela grew up in rural Dorset, and took part in equestrian events.

At the age of 17 she went for half a year at a boarding school in Munich, where Unity Mitford she introduced Adolf Hitler. Later she studied at the Sorbonne, but to get a degree without ever. In 1937 she returned to England. In London she worked as a translator for the Foreign Office, where she met Frederick 1939 Randolph Churchill. That same evening he stopped by her hand, and on October 4, they were married.

In February 1941, Randolph was sent to military service to Cairo and piled there at considerable gambling debts. This, and her affair with Averell Harriman contributed to the breakdown of their marriage. In December 1945, she filed for divorce.

Pamela, divorced Churchill, moved to Paris and began an affair in 1948 with Gianni Agnelli. Only impregnated Princess Marella Caracciolo as this di Castagneto, Pamela ended the relationship.

After an affair with the married Baron Elie de Rothschild met her in 1959 also still married Broadway producer Leland Hayward. She accepted his proposal of marriage and moved to New York. She stayed with him until his death in 1971.

Immediately thereafter, she got in touch with her ​​former lover Averell Harriman, who was himself widowed fresh. On September 27, 1971, the two married. Through him, she came into contact with the political establishment in Washington, DC.

Policy

As Pamela Churchill Harriman she took in 1971 to the U.S. Citizenship and began to work for the Democratic Party. President Bill Clinton appointed her 1993 U.S. Ambassador to France.

In February 1997, she suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage and died the next day. French President Jacques Chirac, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour on her coffin; she was the first foreign diplomat who was awarded this honor. President Clinton dispatched Air Force One, to transfer their remains in the United States and spoke at her funeral service in the Washington National Cathedral.

On 14 February 1997 she was buried at the Harriman estate in Arden, New York.