Pamela Harriman Confirmed as Envoy to France
Pamela Harriman, a prominent Washington socialite and political activist, was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to France by the Senate Friday.
Harriman, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was born in England in 1920. She married Winston Churchill’s son Randolph in 1939 and had one son, Winston Spencer Churchill. After she and Randolph divorced, she was married for 10 years to American theater producer Leland Hayward until he died in 1970.
A year later, she married W. Averell Harriman, then a 79-year-old, multimillionaire former New York governor and diplomat and an elder statesman of the Democratic Party. He died in 1986.
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