ASTOR (William Waldorf, 2nd Viscount, 1879-1952, Politician, husband of Nancy)

Autograph Letter Signed “Bill” to “Dearest Ava” Lady WAVERLEY (1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) regretting that he has “got to be in Paris in time for dinner on the 29th. But if a bed on the 28th or lunch on the 29th are any good, will you come then. I was so sorry to have missed the Trojan triumph...”, 2 sides 8vo., Cliveden headed paper with a fine vignette of the House, no date

Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley (formerly Wigram, née Bodley) was Lady Anderson from 1941 until 1952. She was an English political and social hostess at the centre of government during the Second World War. Winston Churchill noted "her contact with gt. affairs". It was said that she had "more indirect influence than any woman of her generation".
As the home of Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place during the 1920s and 1930s of the Cliveden Set, a group of political intellectuals. Later, during the early 1960s, when it was the home of the 3rd Viscount Astor, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo affair.

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