![]() Ĭlaire met Frank Randall, a historian, when he came to consult her uncle about his work. ![]() She later claims that her first kiss was at the age of eight, in Egypt with the dragoman's nine-year-old son. Over the years, Claire recalls various places she had lived, including South America, Persia and Egypt. "Faced with the necessity of prying my chubby fingers off the car's door handle and dragging me by the heels up the steps of the school, Uncle Lamb, who hated personal conflict of any kind, had sighed in exasperation, then finally shrugged and tossed his better judgment out the window along with my newly purchased round straw boater." Ĭlaire consequently spent her childhood traveling the world with her uncle while he worked, becoming accustomed to fairly primitive conditions. He attempted to enroll her at an English boarding school, but she stubbornly refused to attend. Her parents died in a car accident when she was only five, and Claire was adopted by her uncle, Quentin Lambert Beauchamp, an archaeologist and historian whose work took him all over the world. Claire Beauchamp was born to Julia and Henry Beauchamp on October 20, 1918.
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