Beatrice Helen Beckett (27 July 1905 – 29 June 1957) was the first wife of British politician Anthony Eden.

[citation needed] In 1923, Beckett married Anthony Eden, a Conservative politician, during a lull in his first election campaign.

[2] Eden eventually realised that his wife was having affairs with other men, but the two agreed to lead largely separate lives in private, "maintaining the fabric of their marriage until the strain became intolerable.

[2] The marriage was dealt its "final blow" when the couple's eldest son, Pilot Officer Simon Eden, predeceased his parents after being reported missing in action in Burma in June 1945.

[2] She died in 1957 and is buried in the Beckett family plot at St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire.