Wedding of Violet Asquith and Maurice Bonham-Carter
Wedding group at the marriage of Violet Asquith to Maurice Bonham-Carter. Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE (15 April 1887 - 19 February 1969) was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908-1916, and later became active in Liberal politics herself, being a leading opponent of appeasement, standing for Parliament and being made a life peer. She was also involved in arts and literature. Her illuminating diaries cover her father's premiership before and during World War I and continue until the 1960s. She was a close friend of Sir Winston Churchill and Churchill's son, Randolph, is seen standing to the right of Violet in the wedding group. Others are: top row from left, Miss Kathleen Tennant (later Kathleen Manners when she became wife of the Marquis of Granby, Duke of Rutland), Prime Minister Asquith, the bridgegroom (Asquith's private secretary), Miss Elizabeth Asquith (Asquith's daughter from his second marriage, later Elizabeth Bibesco, the writer). The page boys are from left, Master David and Michael M'Kenna, William Harcourt and Randolph Churchill
