Elizabeth Bibesco
Lady Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith ( born February 26, 1897 in London, † April 7, 1945 in Corcova, Romania) was a British writer and by marriage Princess Bibesco de Brancovan.
Life
Elizabeth was the first child of the politician and later Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith ( 1852-1928 ) and his second wife, writer Lady Emma Alice Margaret Tennant ( 1864-1945 ), a daughter of Sir Charles Clow Tennant and Emma Winsloe. Her childhood revolved around perfect behavior and the social representation, which they refined in the French girls' Les Ruches in Fontainebleau, founded by Mademoiselle Marie Souvestre, and in the Swiss boarding school Le Rosey. The Education of Elizabeth was closely monitored by their parents, and it was considered extremely intelligent. During the First World War, Elizabeth and her mother engaged in several social areas, including organization and conduct of matinees for the soldiers. During this time she met the eccentric Prince Antoine de Bibesco Brancovan know, he was First Secretary at the Romanian Embassy in London.
On April 29, 1919 Lady Elizabeth Asquith married at St. Margaret 's Church in Westminster Londonerstadtteil the aristocrat Antoine de Bibesco Brancovan ( 1878-1951 ). The wedding was at that time the social event of the year, the guests were many persons from the European high - and money aristocracy. The young couple lived on in Paris, where their only daughter, Priscilla (1920-2004), was born.
Within a short time she made the acquaintance of the most famous artists of the city, including Claude Debussy and Marcel Proust. In the interwar period, her husband took a series of diplomatic tasks: In the early 1920s, he was ambassador in Washington DC and then in Madrid (1927-1931), where she accompanied him.
In the years 1921-1940 Elizabeth Bibesco de Brancovan wrote several short stories, four novels, two plays and a book of poetry. During this time she led a lively correspondence with the writers Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. During the Second World War she lived on the family estate in Romania, where she died of pneumonia in April 1945.