Constance Crowninshield Coolidge, was a Boston Brahmin, socialite, heiress and a long-term American expatriate living in Paris. She had the pedigree of the most elite Boston Brahmin: she was a descend
Charcoal drawing of Constance, 1915
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Ray Atherton was a career United States diplomat, who served as Ambassador to Greece, Bulgaria, and Denmark. He also served the role of Head of Mission as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotenti
Constance Crowninshield Coolidge
…the company of the Windsor's and accompanied them to Monte Carlo. While in Paris studying languages, eighteen-year-old Constance met fellow Bostonian Ray Atherton who was studying architecture at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Atherton asked her father for permission to marry, but Coolidge insisted they wait a year…
Atherton in 1944
Ray Atherton visiting President Roosevelt at the White House
(L-R) Mrs. Clementine Churchill, Sir Eugene Fiset, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Rt. Hon. W.L. Mackenzie King, Lady Fiset, Hon. Ray Atherton in September 1944