Elizabeth Asquith
Lady Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith (born February 26, 1897 in London , † April 7, 1945 in Corcova , Romania) was a British writer and by marriage Princess Bibesco de Brancovan.
Life
Elizabeth was the first child of the politician and future Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928) and his second wife, the writer Lady Emma Alice Margaret Tennant (1864-1945), a daughter of Sir Charles Clow Tennant and Emma Winsloe. Her childhood revolved around perfect behavior and social representation, which she refined at the French boarding school Les Ruches in Fontainebleau , founded by Mademoiselle Marie Souvestre , and at the Swiss boarding school Le Rosey . Elizabeth's upbringing was closely monitored by her parents and she was considered extremely intelligent. During the First World War , Elizabeth and her mother were involved in several social areas, including organizing and holding matinées for the soldiers. During this time she met the eccentric Prince Antoine Bibesco de Brancovan, who was First Secretary at the Romanian Embassy in London.
On April 29, 1919, Lady Elizabeth Asquith married the aristocrat Antoine Bibesco de Brancovan (1878-1951) in St Margaret's Church in Westminster, London . The wedding was the social event of the year at that time, the guests included many people from the European high and money aristocracy . The young couple then lived in Paris , where their only daughter, Priscilla (1920–2004), was born.
Within a very short time she made the acquaintance of the city's most famous artists, including Claude Debussy and Marcel Proust . In the interwar period, her husband took on a number of diplomatic tasks: in the early 1920s he was ambassador to Washington, DC and then to Madrid (1927–1931), where she accompanied him.
Between 1921 and 1940, Elizabeth Bibesco de Brancovan wrote several short stories, four novels, two plays and a book on poetry . During this time she was in close correspondence with the writers Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield . During the Second World War she lived on the family home in Romania, where she died in April 1945 of complications from pneumonia .
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| SURNAME | Asquith, Elizabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Asquith, Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer and by marriage Princess Bibesco de Brancovan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1945 |
| Place of death | Corcova |