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Aug 3, 2022 · 3rd August 2022. PBS is developing a new television drama exploring the public and private life of Clementine Churchill. Born in London in 1885, she was the wife of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. The five-part limited series comes from the executive producer of World on Fire, Endeavour, Unforgotten, and Grantchester.
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During the course of their 57-year-long marriage, Clementine Churchill repeatedly supported her husband through trying political and personal times.
It was supposed to be a mundane morning. It was 1909 and Winston Churchill, a British member of parliament, had just arrived in Bristol with his new wife, Clementine. Their task was to greet local party members during a routine political stop.
But suddenly, the low-key event turned deadly. A militant suffragist came out of nowhere and began to attack Winston. He had previously taken a public stance against votes for women, much to his wife’s chagrin. Clementine watched in horror as her husband grappled with the woman. The attacker shoved him toward a moving train—but Clementine pushed through a pile of luggage and literally grabbed him by the coattails, saving his life.
It wasn’t the only time Clementine Churchill would whisk her husband out of danger. During the course of their 57-year-long marriage, Clementine helped her husband get out of political and personal trouble repeatedly. Though she kept a low profile, she was the driving force behind the seemingly bulletproof British prime minister—and Winston himself credited her as the primary driver behind his astonishingly successful life.
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Clementine’s life is a success story in and of itself. Born to aristocratic parents, her early life was lonely and marked by rumor and scandal. Clementine’s parents, Lady Blanche Hozier and Henry Montague Hozier, despised one another and were so famously unfaithful that associates assumed none of their children were fathered by Henry. He left Blanche when Clementine was six years old, plunging her mother—a notorious gambler—into relative poverty.
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Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, [1] GBE ( née Hozier; 1 April 1885 – 12 December 1977) was the wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and a life peer in her own right. While legally the daughter of Sir Henry Hozier, her mother Lady Blanche's known infidelity and his suspected ...
- 12 December 1977 (aged 92), London, England
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- Clementine Ogilvy Hozier, 1 April 1885, London, England
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July 28, 2022; Boston, MA– A five-part drama based on the public and private life of Clementine Churchill, wife of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, is being developed for television ...
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Apr 4, 2024 · Clementine Churchill Series Coming to PBS. During the virtual Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour on July 28, 2022, MASTERPIECE Executive Producer Susanne Simpson made an exciting announcement: A New limited drama series about the life of Clementine Churchill, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s wife, is being developed for television by PBS and MASTERPIECE.
Aug 18, 2023 · Clementine Hozier’s engagement photo by Mary Soames, 1908, via The Churchill Project In 1904, Clementine first met Winston Churchill at a ball.She was 19 years old. Winston Churchill was 30 by then and had already acquired publicity as a soldier, correspondent, and author of six bo
Dec 31, 2015 · On how Clementine took action on her own. She saw that all Britain had in 1940-1941 was a collective spirit, and that had to be fostered and nurtured and protected. And yet, people were ...
