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28 de feb. de 2021 · Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon’s diaries caused a stir in 1967. Now edited by Simon Heffer and published unredacted, they reveal even more about British high society
Channon was privately educated and, in 1917, was made an honorary attaché to the American Embassy in Paris. In 1920 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’.
28 de feb. de 2016 · Primary Sources Henry (Chips) Channon. Henry (Chips) Channon was born in Chicago on 7th March 1897. He was educated in the United States and France and in served in Europe with the American Red Cross during the First World War.. After the war he returned to the United States for a short time. He wrote to a friend: "The more I know of American civilization, the more I despise it.
Sir Henry Channon, often known as Chips Channon, was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation. He wrote extensively about these views. Channon quickly became enamoured of London society and ...
3 de mar. de 2021 · Sir Henry (Chips) Channon was born in Chicago in 1897 (although he claimed 1899 as the year of his birth, until the true facts were exposed - to his embarrassment - in the Sunday Express). The son of a wealthy businessman, he accompanied the American Red Cross to Paris in 1917, was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, and then settled in London where he mingled with society and enjoyed ...
