His father was a Liberal MP for Westmeath who was appointed a Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria in 1869 and, from 1873 to 1874, served as a Lord of the Treasury in Gladstone's government.
[4] In February 1909, his mother, Lady Violet (who died in 1932), wrote about the decadence of British society, blaming American brides.
The rich American has no traditions; no prejudices in favour of old customs, duties, or responsibilities; she is essentially irresponsible, and measures everything by one standard only--money.
It has, far more than any suffragette movement, given liberty to women to do as they like; for the American regards her husband as an inferior being, made to work for her, and to lavish pleasures and gifts as a reward for her beauty and sprightliness.
[5] Nine months later on 24 November 1909, Charles was married to American heiress Olive (née Grace) Kerr (1876–1959), at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.
[10][b] Together, Olive and Charles were the parents of:[3] Lord Greville died on 14 May 1952 and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest legitimate son, Ronald.
Her son was put into a private boys' school aged just four and she returned to the Greville's residence at Beaufort Gardens, Knightsbridge in 1920.
Cecil Violet Enid then obtained a divorce from her first husband in 1927 and married Air Vice Marshal Edward Irvine Bussell CBE in 1927.