Churchill's hippie granddaughter dies

[rpannier]

LONDON, England (AP) -- Arabella Spencer-Churchill, the unconventional granddaughter of Britain's wartime prime minister and a founder of the Glastonbury rock festival, has died at age 58, her husband said.

Spencer-Churchill, who had pancreatic cancer, died at home in Glastonbury, southwestern England, said her husband, Ian McLeod. On the same day, her son, Nicholas Jake Barton, was sentenced to three years in prison in Australia for his part in an ecstasy drug racket.

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She was a free spirit in one of the grandest families in Britain, drawn to the hippie life. In the mid-1970s, she lived the down-and-out life as a squatter in London, running a low-cost restaurant for fellow squatters.

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She was embroiled in controversy in 1971 when she declined an invitation to represent Britain at a NATO festival in the United States.

link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/21/churchill.granddaughter.ap/index.html

[Kolesar]

1. British hippie

[Cooley Hurd]

2. All of a sudden, I'm hungry for lentils...

:D

[Kolesar]

3. Peace, and vegetable rights!