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Discover life events, stories and photos about Lady Gwendoline Theresa Mary Bertie (1885–1941) of Phoenix Park, County Dublin, Ireland.
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- Major John Strange Spencer Churchill
Apr 2, 2018 · Churchill first picked up a brush at the suggestion of his sister-in-law, Lady Gwendoline Bertie, who was also a painter. In Painting as a Pastime, he recalled his first artmaking attempt one day in the countryside.
Dec 28, 2014 · The letter, discovered by a history research fellow at Cambridge University, Warren Dockter, was written by Lady Gwendoline Bertie who married Churchill’s brother Jack.
- 10His Cigars
- 9His Daring South African Escape
- 8The Two Winstons
- 7The Accident That Almost Killed Him
- 6His Interest in Islam
- 5his White House Birthday Suit
- 4The Siege of Sydney Street
- 3Churchill’S Sneeze
- 2his Black Dog
- 1His Quotes
The classic image of Winston Churchill includes a giant cigar stuck between his lips. Churchill developed his love of cigars as a young man, when he traveled to Cuba to report on an ongoing rebellion against the colonial Spanish government. For the rest of his life, he smoked eight or nine cigars every day. However, he almost never took a puff, pre...
In 1899, Churchill traveled to South Africa to cover the ongoing Boer War for the Morning Post. While there, he was offered a chance to accompany an expedition on an improvised armored train. Although correspondents for the Times and the Manchester Guardian declined the invitation, describing the train as a “death trap,” Churchill was all too eager...
Although it’s somewhat overshadowed by his political career, Winston Churchill was an accomplished writer. In fact, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. His first book was The Story Of The Malakand Field Force, a first-hand account of a military campaign in what is now Pakistan. Funnily enough, there was another writer named Winston Churc...
In December 1931, Churchill was on a late-night visit to his friend Bernard Baruch (pictured with Churchill) in New York when he had a brush with death. While crossing the street, he was hit by a car, which then dragged him behind it for a short distance. As it turned out, Churchill had instinctively looked to the right when he wanted to cross. How...
Churchill was so fascinated by Islam that his family thought he might convert. His interest was revealed by the discovery of a 1907 letter written by Lady Gwendoline Bertie, who was engaged to his brother at the time. The letter was written as Churchill was about to leave on a tour of North Africa and Lady Gwendoline warned that “if you come into c...
Churchill apparently had several naked incidents while staying in the White House. On one occasion, he supposedly encountered the ghost of Abraham Lincoln while naked. They stared at each other for some time before Lincoln politely disappeared. President Franklin Roosevelt also saw him naked, along with several White House staff during his 24-day v...
On December 16, 1910, nine unarmed policemen were sent to investigate a reported burglary attempt in Houndsditch, London. When they arrived, the criminals, later identified as anarchist refugees from Latvia, opened fire, killing three policemen and injuring two others in the worst police shooting in London history. It’s been noted that the killings...
The border between Jordan and Saudi Arabia includes a sharp zigzag known as Churchill’s Hiccup or Churchill’s Sneeze. The story goes that Churchill was drawing the map when a sudden hiccup or sneeze caused his hand to slip, making a sharp indent into Jordan. It’s a pretty ridiculous story and unsurprisingly it isn’t true. Instead, the zigzag shape ...
Throughout his life, Churchill probably suffered from manic depression, which he called his “black dog.” At times, his depression was so severe that he didn’t like standing close to a passing train or looking at the ocean from a ship because he feared he would be tempted to commit suicide. His close friend Lord Beaverbrook once said that he was alw...
The great quotes of Winston Churchill have filled entire books. Unfortunately, many of the quotes attributed to him just aren’t true. For instance, Nancy Astor is often said to have told him “If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee,” to which Churchill replied “If I were married to you, I’d drink it.” The incident did happen, but Chur...
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Apr 30, 2022 · Genealogy for Lady Gwendoline Theresa Mary Spencer-Churchill (Bertie) (1885 - 1941) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Dec 28, 2014 · In an August 1907 letter, Lady Gwendoline Bertie, who was soon to marry Churchill’s brother Jack, wrote the future prime minister, then a 32-year-old indifferent Anglican: “Please don’t become converted to Islam; I have noticed in your disposition a tendency to orientalise, Pasha-like tendencies, I really have.
