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Apr 17, 2017 · Sarah Churchill was the essence of the modern woman living in an era that was not yet ready for her. Judged in her day as a “Bolshie Deb,” a runaway bride, a rising star of London’s West End, and “the one that’s always in trouble,” she was in her own words endlessly “written up, written down and always written about” as “a woman who happened to be a daughter of one of the ...
Aug 30, 2022 · Since her papers were opened for research by the Churchill Archives Centre a few years ago, Sarah Churchill has been an important subject in two books: last year’s brilliant The Daughters of Yalta and this year’s The Churchill Girls (reviewed in FH 190 and 192 respectively). Miranda Brooke is the first, however, to give us a full biography ...
- Finest Hour 183, First Quarter 2019
- Road to Teheran
- High Table
- Principal Support
- Darling Papa
By Catherine Grace Katz
Catherine Grace Katz’s book The Daughters of Yalta will be published in 2020. Extracts from the writings of Sarah Churchill are reproduced with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge. One day in early November of 1943 I was summoned to the commanding officer and told by him that leave of absence was to be granted to me so that I could accompany my father on an important journey. The RAF station at Medmenham was quite near to Chequers.…I hurried there now, and...
My duties were mainly to see, along with others, to my father’s comfort and wishes, to relay messages, and to drape myself silently along with the coat racks in the antechambers of the conference rooms with other ADCs assigned to similar duties. I did not have any “ideas above my station.”2 Though Sarah was the Prime Minister’s daughter and the onl...
But now to the dinner: almost one of the first toasts that was drunk was mine! This was proposed by the President. It was terribly sweetly done. I was particularly touched because he couldn’t see me—but he has twice remembered me when I wasn’t around—which I think is wonderful. Stalin got up and came round and touched glasses with me; and I went to...
On the way home that night my father…fell silent and presently said, “War is a game played with a smiling face, but do you think there is laughter in my heart? We travel in style and round us there is great luxury and seeming security, but I never forget the man at the front, the bitter struggles, and the fact that men are dying in the air, on the ...
I have been meaning to write and tell you something of what the journey to Cairo & Tehran meant to me, and how being with you so closely…has enriched my life so immeasurably.…Darling darling Papa, so long as I live I’ll never forget our wonderful journey—over the years the pageantry and colour of those great events may dim or get confused—but I wil...
Despite Churchill’s disapproval of her choice of men and career, Sarah and her father remained close. She accompanied him to several wartime conferences including Tehran (1943) and Yalta (1945) and the affection between father and daughter is clear in numerous letters sent during and after the war (seen in the Churchill Archives).
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Aug 9, 2013 · In Finest Hour 117 we pictured sixteen of a what remain an unknown variety of intaglio drawings by Curtis Hooper, published by Sarah Churchill in the 1970s as “A Visual Philosophy of Winston Churchill,” from the Jaffa Collection at Hillsdale College.
May 7, 2015 · In the 1970s, Sarah Churchill published commercially a series of intaglio drawings by Curtis Hooper entitled, “A Visual Philosophy of Sir Winston Churchill.” Except for one based on a sketch of her father by Sarah, each was composed from famous photographs, selected by Sarah to portray the great impulses of her father’s life.
Sep 1, 2020 · September 1, 2020 Catherine Grace Katz, Daughters of Yalta, Houghton Mifflin, 2020, 416 pages, $28.ISBN 978–0358117858 Review by Anne Sebba. When Sarah Churchill found herself next to NKVD Chief Lavrenty Beria at a banquet hosted by Stalin at the end of the Yalta Conference, she tried out her best textbook Russian phrases on him, such as “Can I have a hot water bottle please?”
