Cliveden

      Newton Hall has been described as the Cliveden of the left; a socialist salon presided over by a wealthy couple on the fringes of politics.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

The Astors soothed suspicions by entertaining in style at Cliveden, their Italianate mansion on the edge of the Chilterns.

Viscount Astor, you really are a class apart | Nick Cohen 2012

Nancy and Waldorf married in 1906 and her father-in-law gifted them his Buckinghamshire estate, Cliveden, which was to be the setting in which Nancy sparkled.

Cocotte of the Week: Nancy Astor | Edwardian Promenade 2010

Dibben's paternal grandfather was the rich playboy and nightclub owner Horace "Hod" Dibben, who organised the Cliveden party at which John Profumo infamously met Christine Keeler.

Time travel saga The History Keepers could be the next Harry Potter-style blockbuster 2011

However, a journalist with communist leanings named Claud Cockburn wrote an article for a newsletter called The Week calling the politicians who favored appeasement with Germany, ‘The Cliveden Set.’

Archive 2009-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

Cecil Beaton, a young man whose social antennae seldom let him down, photographed her at the wedding of the aristocratic racing-driver Earl Howe; a month earlier, she had been staying with the Astors at Cliveden, together with the ubiquitous Bobby Throckmorton and another, more exotic bachelor, Felipe de Rivas, a muscular, languid-eyed polo-player with whom several well-bred young wives enjoyed a heated friendship.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

Obviously sticking two fingers up at the self-absorbed pilferers and Cliveden Set is going to be the only way to anchor politics and media in reality rather than celebrity indulgence.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

I was unaware how Nancy had arrived and that she had married into the William Waldorf-Astors who had decamped to England buying up Cliveden in Berkshire and Hever Castle in Kent and also the Pall Mall Gazette "written by gentlemen for gentlemen".

When the Astors Owned New York 2007

The disciples of the Rhodes/Milner/Cliveden Set have been busy little bees. porkbelly

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Her southern charm, and wit made intimates of many of the men who graced the table at Cliveden, including Hilaire Belloc, T.E. Lawrence, and George Bernard Shaw.

Archive 2009-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009