Violet Bonham Carter
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, (15 April 1887 – 19 February 1969), known until her marriage as
Violet Asquith, was a British
politician and
diarist. She was the daughter of
H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and she was known as Lady Violet, as a
courtesy title, from her father's elevation to the peerage as
Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925. Later she became active in
Liberal politics herself, and was a leading opponent of
appeasement. She stood for Parliament and became a
life peer.
She was also involved in arts and literature. Her diaries cover her father's premiership before and during the
First World War and continue until the 1960s. She was
Sir Winston Churchill's closest female friend, apart from his wife, and her grandchildren include the actress
Helena Bonham Carter.
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