Elizabeth Bibesco

Elizabeth Bibesco

February 26, 1897 – April 07, 1945

Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco (née Asquith; 26 February 1897 – 7 April 1945) was an English writer and socialite. She was the daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian prince. Active as a writer between 1921 and 1940, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen.