![]() Later, his other mansions, Moulton Paddocks and Branksome Dene, would become part of her Cassel inheritance. ![]() Her grandfather, Sir Ernest, solved the domestic dilemma by inviting her to live with him and, eventually, to act as hostess at his London residence, Brook House. She later described her experience at school as 'sheer hell'. Edwina was unhappy during the time because, in addition to a sour relationship with her stepmother, she was bullied at school on account of her grandfather being rich, German, and Jewish. He was one of the richest and most powerful men in Europe.Īfter Wilfred Ashley's remarriage in 1914 to Molly Forbes-Sempill (ex-wife of Rear-Admiral Arthur Forbes-Sempill), Edwina Ashley was sent away to boarding schools, first to the Links in Eastbourne, then to Alde House in Suffolk, at neither of which was she a willing pupil. Cassel had been born in Cologne, Prussia, of Jewish origin. ![]() Edwina's mother, Amalia Mary Maud Cassel (1879–1911), was the only child of the international magnate Sir Ernest Cassel (1852–1921), friend and private financier to the future King Edward VII. Patrilineally, she was a great-granddaughter of the reformist 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. Her younger sister was Mary Ashley (Lady Delamere). ![]() Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley was born in 1901, the elder daughter of Wilfrid Ashley (later 1st Baron Mount Temple), who was a Conservative member of Parliament. ![]()
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