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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:
- Winston Churchill's daughter
- 3, including Edwina Sandys
- 11 July 1909, Pimlico, London, England
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Name variations: Diana Sandys; Mrs. Duncan Sandys. Born Diana Spencer Churchill on July 11, 1909, at Eccleston Square, London, England; died on October 19, 1963, at Chester Row, London, England; daughter of Sir Winston S. Churchill ( prime minister of England) and Lady Clementine Hozier Spencer-Churchill; attended Notting Hill High School ...
Feb 13, 2019 · Birthday: July 11, 1909 ( Cancer) Born In: London. Quick Facts. British Celebrities Born In July. Also Known As: Diana Spencer-Churchill. Died At Age: 54. Family: Spouse/Ex-: Duncan Sandys (m. 1935 – div. 1960), John Milner Bailey (m. 1932 – div. 1935) father: Winston Churchill. mother: Baroness Spencer-Churchill, Clementine Churchill.
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- A Delightful Autobiography
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- All That Life Can Give
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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 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.
Apr 12, 2000 · It took half a lifetime for Sandys to find her literary vocation. Born in 1943 within the shadow of Parliament to the MP and government minister Duncan Sandys, and Diana, eldest daughter of...
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...
