RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif., March 12 (UPI) -- Lenore Annenberg, widow of Walter Annenberg, the publisher who became U.S. ambassador to Britain, died Thursday at the age of 91 in California.
Annenberg was the State Department's chief of protocol under President Ronald Reagan and played an active role in management of the Annenberg Foundation.
She died of natural causes, her spokesman, Kathleen Hall Jamison, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Annenberg, niece of Harry and Jack Cohn, the founders of Columbia Pictures, was brought up by Harry and his wife after her parents were killed in a car crash. She married and divorced twice before her 1951 marriage to Annenberg, which endured until his death in 2002.
The couple had no children together. Annenberg is survived by one daughter from each of her early marriages and by a step-daughter.
"He was Mr. Right," she told The Washington Post in a rare interview. "We thought alike, had the same goals, aspirations and feelings, and we loved to do the same things."
The couple were active in politics, becoming especially friendly with the Reagans. After her husband's death, Annenberg became head of the Annenberg Foundation.
