At Cliveden, the family seat of the British descendants of John Jacob Astor, once America`s richest man, the very hallways echo with the footsteps of the titled, the rich and sometimes infamous ...

For many Cliveden (pronounced "cliv-din") will always be known for its associations with the "Cliveden Set," a group of pro-Nazi sympathizers who gathered around the Astors in the years leading up ...

No gossip has so rankled ruling British Conservatives as that told about the Cliveden Set (pronounced kliv-den). First to "discover" the Set was The Week, mimeographed newssheet edited by ...

This new ‘Cliveden Set’ of course gave birth to the Profumo Affair, two days after they were first introduced at Cliveden, Profumo tracked Keeler down and arranged to meet her while his wife ...

In the popular imagination, Cliveden is perhaps best known for the Profumo Affair, for the swimming pool that a 19-year-old Christine Keeler slunk out of, naked, locking eyes with the Tory rising star ...

Outside of London and 15 minutes from Heathrow Airport lies Cliveden House. It’s a storybook mansion set on the rolling green banks of the Thames, and it just may be the grandest airport hotel ...

THE MISTRESSES OF CLIVEDEN: THREE CENTURIES OF SCANDAL, POWER, AND INTRIGUE IN AN ENGLISH STATELY HOME By Natalie Livingstone Ballantine Books, $32, 495 pages illustrated Few would argue that the ...

Outside of London and 15 minutes from Heathrow Airport lies Cliveden House. It’s a storybook mansion set on the rolling green banks of the Thames, and it just may be the grandest airport hotel ...