Michael Temple Canfield

Michael Temple Canfield (August 20, 1926 – December 20, 1969) was an American diplomatic aide and secretary at the US Embassy in London during the Eisenhower administration who later worked in London as an editorial representative of Harper & Row. Early life As an infant, he was adopted by Katherine Temple (née Emmet) Canfield, a descendant of Irish immigrant and New York State Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet, and her then husband, Cass Canfield, a publishing executive who was the longtime president and chairman of Harper & Brothers and, later, Harper & Row. His older brother was Cass Canfield Jr., also a publishing executive. His parents divorced in June 1937 and his father remarried to Jane Sage (née White) Fuller (1897–1984), an author and sculptor. She was the former wife of Charles Fairchild Fuller and a relative of Ernest Ingersoll. Disputed paternity According to the memoirs of Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, Edward VIII believed that Canfield was actually the biological son of his brother Prince George, Duke of Kent (the fourth son of King George V) and Kiki Preston, a "glamorous but drug-addicted American socialite who was a member of Kenya’s notorious Happy Valley set" who committed suicide on December 23, 1946. Education and career Canfield attended the Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts on the shores of Lake Cochichewick, before serving in the United States Marine Corps during World War II where he was wounded at Iwo Jima. After the war, he returned to the U.S. where he attended Harvard College (where he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 and A.D. Club), graduating in 1951.