STUDY OF MRS CHAMBERLAIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 7 November 1938, Page 2

STUDY OF MRS CHAMBERLAIN

Mrs Neville Chamberlain is tall and blue-eyed, with a sense of humour. She is half-Irish, being linked on her mother’s side with the De Veres of Curragh Chase. She was a Miss Annie Vere Cole when she married Neville Chamberlain in 1911. She prefers to be called Ann, but her husband always calls her Annie. Mrs Chamberlain is

fond of home pursuits, and is a good cook and an accomplished needlewoman. But she is also a talented pianist and very well read. She shares her husband’s love of Nature and of

Shakespeare. It is said that the Prime Minister never travels anywhere without a volume of Shakespeare in his pocket and that when, on his way to Munich, he quoted the lines, “Out of this nettle danger, we pluck this flower safety,” he had the play it comes from, ‘Henry IV,’ part I, with him. The Prime Minister and his wife enjoy spending a quiet evening together, he puffing at his pipe and reading, she knitting or embroidering until, to rest his eyes and brain, they talk about anything but politics, or she takes over his book and reads to him aloud. They have two children, Francis, aged 24, who joined the Territorial Army last year as a gunner in the Birmingham Business Men’s Battery, and who was called up when the crisis developed; and a daughter, who married three years ago and has a son aged two and a daughter born during the recent crisis.

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