Jehanne Deirdre Alexandra Wake (née Williams) is a British biographer, historian and archivist.
[2] Jehanne Wake had an international upbringing before she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford University.
[4] They were granddaughters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton of Maryland, the only Roman Catholic and the longest-surviving signer of the American Declaration of Independence.
The eldest three sisters travelled to Britain shortly after the Napoleonic wars and were among the earliest American women to enter British society.
Emily, the only daughter to stay in the United States, married John MacTavish, a Scots-Canadian fur trade entrepreneur and British Consul to Baltimore, Maryland.