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Feb 14, 2009 · Because his parents had been divorced when he was 11—”which caused quite a commotion in those days”—he had had such an unhappy childhood that, in later years, he did not mention his parents in his Who’s Who entry. “It was all a bit sudden,” admitted Lady Soames.
- Churchill: Leader and Statesman
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- International Churchill Society
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- Churchill: Leader and Statesman
Feb 8, 2015 · Mary described herself as a “child of consolation,” product of Winston and Clementine’s grief at their daughter Marigold’s premature death in 1921. In due time, she consoled her parents, supported her husband and nurtured her children. But she also developed a distinctive voice of her own as a woman and an author.
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Nov 15, 2011 · Young Mary lived an eclectic wartime life, enduring the privations of ordinary soldiers, while staying betimes with her parents at Chequers and No. 10 Annexe, the above-ground rooms where her father spent most of his time in London.
Lady Soames was not like other children. At the age of five she already spoke, wrote Winston, 'in the tone and style of a woman of 30'. Sir Winston Churchill and his youngest child Mary - they ...
Aug 5, 1990 · The world has proven hospitable for the 10 grandchildren of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965). It's a place where they can make their marks but they can't escape his long shadow....
Dec 4, 2015 · Sonia Purnell’s book is the first formal biography — apart from an account written by the Churchills’ daughter Mary Soames — of a woman who has heretofore been relegated to the sidelines, even...
Biographical / Historical. Mary Churchill was born on 15 September 1922, the youngest daughter of Winston Churchill and Clementine Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier). She was educated privately, and married [Arthur] Christopher Soames in 1947, with whom she had three sons and two daughters.
