Chips channon biography
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Sir Henry &#;Chips&#; Channon
Socialite Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon () was a Chicago-born, Anglophile Conservative MP most famed for his caustic diaries kept daily between and his death. As he said of his lifetime of sharp observations, ‘what is more dull than a discreet diary? One might as well have a discreet soul’. Henry Channon could eviscerate even his closest friends and family as this observation about his father demonstrates: ‘he was a dull, charming, uneducated, unexciting, unhappy, untidy little man … a cipher really. But I always liked him, and he doted on me’.
Channon was privately educated and, in , was made an honorary attaché to the American Embassy in Paris. In he went up to Christ Church college, Oxford, where he befriended Prince Paul of Yugoslavia; a man he described as ‘the person I have loved most’. It was at Oxford that he was given the nickname ‘Chips’. Independently wealthy and unabashed about displaying his exquisite taste for beautiful objects and people, C
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Henry Channon
American-born British politician (–)
Sir Henry Channon (7 March – 7 October ), known as Chips Channon, was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional europeisk and British civilisation. He wrote extensively about these views. Channon quickly became enamoured of London kultur and became a social and political climber.
Channon was first elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in In his political career he served as Parliamentary Private sekreterare to Rab Butler at the utländsk Office from in the Chamberlain ledning and though he retained that position under Winston Churchill he did not subsequently achieve ministerial office, partly as a result of his close association with the Chamberlain faction. He fryst vatten remembered as one of the most famous political and social diarists of the 20th century. His di
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Primary Sources
(1) Henry 'Chips' Channon,diary entry (5th April, )
A full, exhausting day. We had a luncheon party here, and the plot was to do a 'politesse' to Mrs Simpson. She is a jolly, plain, intelligent, quiet, unpretentious and unprepossessing little woman, but as I wrote to Paul of Yugoslavia today, she has already the air of a personage who walks into a room as though she almost expected to be curtsied to. At least, she wouldn't be too surprised. She has complete power over the Prince of Wales, who is trying to launch her socially.
(2) Henry 'Chips' Channon, diary entry (30th July, )
I am bored by this Italian-Abyssinian dispute, and really I fail to see why we should interfere. Though, of course, the League of Nations will stand or fall by it. But I am a little uneasy that the destinies of countless of millions should be in the exquisite hands of Anthony Eden, for whom I have affection, even admiration - but not bl