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- With her daughter Edwina's marriage and the birth of a grandchild, Diana's life seemed more tranquil and settled, but, during the night of October 19–20, 1963, she took a massive overdose of sleeping pills and died. Following an inquest, Diana was cremated and a memorial service was held at St. Stephen's Church in London on October 31, 1963.
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The cause of death was an overdose of barbiturates, and a coroner later concluded that it was a case of suicide. She is buried with her parents (who both outlived her) and her siblings (Marigold originally was interred in a tomb at Kensal Green Cemetery in London, but her remains were relocated in 2019 to join the rest of her family) at St ...
- Edwina Sandys
She is the eldest daughter and second child of Baron...
- Sarah Churchill
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- Edwina Sandys
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...
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 ...
Health problems and death [] Diana had suffered from several nervous breakdowns. In 1962, she began working with the Samaritans, an organisation created for suicide-prevention. Then in 1963, she committed suicide at the age of 54 by taking an overdose of barbiturates.
Dignitaries. Media coverage. Aftermath. See also. References. External links. Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Churchill, the British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, died on 24 January 1965, aged 90.
She served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service during the War. That marriage, too, ended in divorce in 1960. Diana had suffered several nervous breakdowns and she eventually died, before her father, of an overdose of sleeping pills in 1963 at the age of fifty four.
