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On 16 September 1935, she married the Conservative politician Duncan Sandys (later life peer Lord Duncan-Sandys). They had three children together and divorced in 1960. In 1962, she changed her name by deed poll back to Diana Spencer Churchill. Children. With Duncan Sandys she had three children:
Diana lived alone in London but visited the Churchill home at Chartwell in Kent on weekends. During a political campaign for her brother, Randolph, in the summer of 1935, Diana met Duncan Sandys, a diplomat who had left the Foreign Office to enter the political arena.
- A Delightful Autobiography
- Growing Up A Sandys
- Travel and Travail
- All That Life Can Give
- The Author
- Further Reading
What a charming and revealing memoir this is from Winston Churchill’s granddaughter, Celia Sandys. Churchill could never count among his blessings a quiet, serene family life into which to retreat from the hurly burly of politics and war. His loving wife, Clementine, was often exhausted. His political life bounced from wilderness years to periods i...
At school, Celia excelled in sports, particularly swimming, and she confesses to several “scrapes.” But she was unprepared for earning her own living: “I left with the sort or education I might have received from a governess before the war…. [M]y parents did not encourage me to stay on….” But they did send her to Paris, where she spent two terms at...
In 1963, after the divorce, her father became secretary of state for the Colonies under Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home. He invited Celia to accompany him on a tour or Kenya and Zanzibar. to celebrate their independence. She was delighted to go and writes, “I had an amazing time.” Staying in British official residences, she threw herself into the ...
Celia married twice more, the third time to Major General Ken Perkins, a likable man who proved the enduring partner she had often wished for. Sandys has three sons and daughter. And she has worked hard, writing several books about Churchill, including Chasing Churchill, basis for a PBS film on her grandfather’s travels. She also appeared on the TV...
Cita Stelzer graduated from Barnard College and was a special aide to New York Mayor John Lindsay and Governor Hugh Carey, before joining an economic consulting firm specializing in regulatory policy. She is the author of two works on Sir Winston: Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table (2013) and Working with Winston: The Unsung W...
Cita Stelzer, “Sarah Churchill: A New Biography of ‘The Mule’ by Miranda Brooke,” 2021. Cita Stelzer, “Getting to Know You”: First Dinners with Winston Churchill,” upcoming, 2022. Raymond A. Callahan, “Rachel Trethewey Ponders the Lives of Diana, Sarah and Mary Churchill,” 2021.
She is the eldest daughter and second child of Baron Duncan-Sandys and Diana Churchill, and a granddaughter of the statesman Sir Winston Churchill. She married Piers Dixon in 1960 and they were divorced in 1970. They have two sons, Mark Pierson Dixon (b. 1962) and Hugo Duncan Dixon (b. 1963).
Jul 8, 1990 · His sister, Diana Churchill, who committed suicide in 1965, had three children by her marriage to the late Duncan Sandys--Julian Sandys, a barrister; Celia Sandys Perkins, an interior...
She very quickly married Duncan Sandys, in September 1935, a Conservative MP who became one of Churchill’s few loyal supporters in the ‘wilderness years’ of the late 1930s. Together they had a son, Julian, in 1936, and daughters Edwina in 1938 and Celia in 1943.
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Apr 12, 2000 · Enter Sir Winston's granddaughter, Celia Sandys, daughter of Diana Churchill and Lord Duncan-Sandys to carry the literary torch.
