Cliveden visitors in 2017. As home of Nancy Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place of the Cliveden Set of the 1920s and 30s—a group of political intellectuals. Later, during the early 1960s, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo Affair. During the 1970s, it was occupied by Stanford University, which used it as an overseas campus. Today the house is leased by the National Trust as a five-star hotel. Cliveden means "valley among cliffs" and refers to the dene (valley) which cuts through part of the estate, east of the house. Cliveden has been spelled differently over
Cliveden set six episodes four and five of the 1960s sitcom "Hogan's Heroes", the two-parter episode 'Lady Chitterly's Lover' involves a plot to negotiate England's surrender from a fictitious member of the Cliveden set, Sir Charles Chitterly. Cliveden set The Cliveden Set were a 1930s, upper class group of prominent individuals politically influential in pre-World War II Britain, who were in the circle of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor. The name comes from Cliveden, the stately home in Buckinghamshire, which was then Astor's country residence. The "Cliveden Set" tag was coined by Claud Cockburn in his journalism for the Communist newspaper "The Week".