At dingy Caxton Hall, a kind of London equivalent of a U.S. city hall, Anthony Eden, 55, and Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, 32, niece of Britain's Prime Minister, became man & wife last week. Eden's divorce from his first wife, the former Beatrice Beckett,* excluded him from the morning-coated church wedding that Britons expect of their well born and highly placed.
The handsome, happy couple had been distant friends, over cocktail and garden parties, ever since Clarissa could remember. They had even worked together (though far apart) in Britain's wartime Foreign Officeshe as a decoding clerk, he as His Majesty's...
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