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Feb 14, 2009 · Finest Hour 116, Autumn 2002. As Churchill’s daughter, Mary Soames had the run of 10 Downing Street and helped arrange dinner with Stalin. She talks to Graham Turner about eighty rich and varied years. Graham Turner is a journalist whom we knew years ago when he covered the motor industry and wrote a penetrating, oft-quoted book, The Leyland ...
Sep 16, 2021 · 'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain, extremely well edited, and occasionally powerfully moving' ANDREW ROBERTS, TLS 'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Mary's affectionately intimate and ...
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Sep 28, 2022 · Emma Soames, ed., Mary Churchill’s War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter, Two Roads, 2021, 384 pages, £16.15/$26.95. ISBN 978–1529341508. Emma Soames has revealed yet another facet of the life and family of Winston Churchill through the diaries of her mother Mary, Churchill’s youngest daughter, who died in 2014 at ...
Jul 4, 2022 · Mary, the youngest of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s five children, was 17 at the outbreak of World War II. When her father was named prime minister, her family moved into 10 Downing Street ...
Jun 7, 2022 · Mary Churchill was the youngest daughter of Sir Winston and Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill. During the war, Mary served in the women's branch of the British Army and as an officer commanding mixed anti-aircraft batteries, for which she was awarded the MBE. After World War II, Mary continued to assist her father and was at Churchill's ...
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The Orlin Russell Corey Memorial Lecture--Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest DaughterEditor Emma Soames, Winston Churchill’s G...
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Mary Spencer-Churchill was born on September 15, 1922, at ‘Chartwell,’ a country house in Westerham, Kent. She was the youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Baroness Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier). Mary attended ‘Manor House School,’ Limpsfield, near ‘Chartwell,’ where she continued ...
