Eden's World - Netflix

The child beauty-pageant queen, who became famous on TLC's Toddlers and Tiaras, heads to New York City to try her hand at show business - and mentors other child beauty queens.

Eden's World - Netflix

Type: Variety

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 30 minutes

Premier: 2012-04-16

Eden's World - Clarissa Eden - Netflix

Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon (née Spencer-Churchill; born 28 June 1920) is the widow of Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897–1977), who was British Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957. She married Eden in 1952, becoming Lady Eden in 1954 when he was made a Knight of the Garter, and then becoming Countess of Avon in 1961 on her husband's elevation to the peerage. She is also the niece of the prime minister Winston Churchill. Her memoir, sub-titled From Churchill to Eden, was published in 2007 under the name of Clarissa Eden. Since the death of Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, Lady Avon has been the oldest living wife of a British prime minister.

Eden's World - "The Suez Canal flowing through my drawing room" - Netflix

In the humiliating aftermath of Suez in 1956, Lady Avon's most famous public remark to a group of Conservative woman that, “in the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing room”, was widely reported. Lady Avon has since described this observation as “silly, really idiotic”, though it remains probably the most quoted utterance of the whole crisis. One example of its durability was a journalist's observation some 54 years later, with reference to the Iraq War of 2003, that “if, as Clarissa Eden remarked, the Suez Canal ran through her drawing room, Iraq and the decisions that flowed from it still haunt [the] Labour [Party] and stir up antipathies and discomforts”. Another instance was in 2013 when options for airport expansion around London were being debated. Journalist Rachel Johnson, sister of London's mayor Boris Johnson, recalled Lady Avon's remark and added, “But for those of us in West London, any further expansion to Heathrow and the airport really will be in our back yards”. More directly, The Times newspaper cited Lady Avon's words in 2011 in connection with a call by the outgoing Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus (later Lord) O'Donnell for Prime Ministerial spouses to receive greater support from public funds: “In a constitutional monarchy, the consort of the prime minister is not an official role ... Yet, as the Countess of Avon so vividly pointed out, it can be impossible to keep public scrutiny at bay altogether”. In Lady Avon's view, both she and her husband “were quite naive about how the press works. Neither of us should have been, but we were.” In his memoirs Eden recalled that, on several occasions during the Suez crisis, he found time to sit in his wife's drawing room, whose décor he described as green. There he was able to enjoy two sanguines by André Derain and a bronze of a girl in her bath by Degas that Alexander Korda had given the Edens as a wedding present.

Eden's World - References - Netflix