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  1. 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 ...

  2. Feb 8, 2015 · Mary was born on 15 September 1922, the same month that her father bought Chartwell, his beloved country house on the edge of the Kentish Weald. She was by far the most junior of the surviving Churchill children (the infant Marigold having died in 1921)—eight years younger than Sarah, the next oldest. She was therefore brought up almost as an ...

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  4. Mar 2, 2016 · Mary Soames, the youngest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill. Mary was ‘the one sibling who grew up safe and sound’, says Geoffrey Wheatcroft. Photograph: L.g. Patterson/AP

  5. Jul 24, 2015 · Mary’s family, of course, was there in force. Lessons were read by Sir Nicholas Soames, her eldest son, and by Sir John Major, the former prime minister. Here follows the Address given by William Shawcross, a close family friend: I sat next to Mary, when she was in her early 80s, at a charity dinner, which boasted a small fun fair.

  6. Jun 5, 2014 · Mary Spencer-Churchill was born in London on Sept. 15, 1922. A year earlier, her sister Marigold died of tonsillitis at 2 ½. Her arrival, she wrote, helped compensate her parents for their bitter ...

  7. Jun 7, 2014 · She was Mary Churchill, Lady Soames, who died on the last day of May at 91. Not only was she the last surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill, she was also the only one who had grown ...

  8. Jun 1, 2014 · LONDON (AP) — Mary Soames, the last surviving child of British World War II leader Winston Churchill, has died. She was 91. Her son Nicholas Soames said she died Saturday evening after a short illness. "She was a distinguished writer and led a distinguished life, with her service in the war, and is part of that generation which is passing," Nicholas Soames said Sunday. He said it was ...

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