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Once back in England, Diana continued to have fun. Describing herself to her father as ‘a would-be flapper’, she whizzed around London in her little car, meeting friends and shopping. When she came out as a debutante in 1928, she was featured on the cover of several society magazines, looking chic in a cloche hat and fur-trimmed coat.
Nov 26, 2023 · The eldest, Diana, was born on July 11, 1909 (per John Pearson's "The Private Lives of Winston Churchill" ). As she came into the world, Churchill proudly told David Lloyd George, "She is the image of me." According to the International Churchill Society, Churchill was one to spoil his children, while Clementine acted as disciplinarian.
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LONDON, Oct. 20--Diana Churchill, eldest daughter of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill and the former wife of Duncan Sandys, Colonial and Commonwealth Relations Secretary, died at her West End home ...
Apr 3, 2021 · Randolph Churchill with his father and sisters Diana and Sarah, 1935 Credit: Rex. Worse, Churchill initially took pride in his son’s cocksureness, endorsing his conduct. An obnoxious youth ...
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Famed for her beauty and the “durable fire” of her marriage to Alfred Duff Cooper, First Viscount Norwich, The Lady Diana Cooper was early admitted to a warm friendship with Winston and Clementine Churchill. A stunning woman and an accomplished actress, she was also an accomplished writer. Her trilogy of memoirs is redolent of that vanished England...
From the solemn moment when the world knew that Winston Churchill had breathed his last, a roll of honour of some 17th-century poet elusively haunted me. To lay it I asked friends, poets, and publishers, even All Souls College. All remembered it, but none could place the lines that say: “O that Sir Philip Sidney should be dead….O that Sir Walter Ra...
Many great men have done as much. Caesar’s Calpurnia, we are told, was above suspicion. Nothing is known of her beauty, and we cannot guess at her temptations. Josephine, chosen by Napoleon in his youth for love, was a better wife than the princess who bore him a son. Martha Washington was surely good, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Disraeli married out of...
Personally I did not know the Churchills when they married, though they were household words since I first remember adult talk. I saw Clementine’s tall, slim figure for the first time in 1910, swathed in black weeds, together with another strangely beautiful young woman, passing silently, as I was myself, before the bier of King Edward VII in Westm...
I remember particularly a weekend spent at Chartwell, much of it in Winston’s swimming pool. Forty winks in the afternoon and then (unexpectedly) bathing at seven in pouring rain, intensely cold with a grey half-light of approaching night, yet curiously enough very enjoyable in its oddness. Freda Ward, Winston, Duff, Clementine, Randolph and a chil...
I was continually meeting Winston at small parties of friends. They were perfect companions and audiences for his histrionics, his eloquence, and his quips. At bigger, more formal dinners, he would sit, a little hunched, distrait or perhaps just self-sufficient, between two ladies trembling with shyness and glowing with the vain hope of pleasing or...
In wartime, away from Chartwell, difficulties increased apace, perhaps a little less, materially, for the exalted. Winston was always a fastidious eater, and Clementine and her famous cook, Mrs. Landemare, had to cater for moods of hunger or of fractious fatigue. They would cheerfully reorganize meals ordered for six at eight o’clock into meals for...
The task would have been too heavy for most women to carry. It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people’s shoes: into a ballerina’s points as she feels age weight upon her spring; into Cinderella’s slippers as she dances till midnight; inside the jackboot that kicks; into the Tommy’s boots that tramp. With experience of age I hav...
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Diana Josephine Churchill, actress: born London 21 August 1913; married Barry K. Barnes (died 1965), 1976 Mervyn Johns (died 1992); died 8 October 1994.
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. She served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service during the War.
