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George Cornwallis-West was noted primarily for his marriages, the first to Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill, and the second to the renowned actress Stella Campbell, who was also known on the stage as Mistress Patrick Campbell. George Bernard Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle in his play Pygmalion for Stella Campbell.
Cornwallis-West – a member of the Scots Guards – was just two weeks older than Jennie’s elder son, but the two quickly began a relationship. He was the son of William Cornwallis-West , a prominent politician, and Mary “Patsy” FitzPatrick , an Irish aristocrat who had once been the lover of the future Edward VII in the early 1870s.
15 de abr. de 2019 · Endnotes. 1 Born Jennie Jerome in Brooklyn, 9 January 1854, she became known as Lady Randolph Churchill on marriage in 1874; then as Mrs. George Cornwallis-West on remarriage in 1900; and finally once again as Lady Randolph Churchill on the dissolution of her second marriage in 1914.
Daisy, Princess of Pless (Mary Theresa Olivia; née Cornwallis-West; 28 June 1873 – 29 June 1943) was a noted society beauty in the Edwardian period. During her marriage, she was a member of one of the wealthiest European noble families. Daisy and her husband Prince Hans Heinrich XV were the owners of large estates and coal mines in Silesia ...
3 de mar. de 2016 · Five years after the death of her first husband, Lord Randolph Churchill, Jennie gets re-married to George Cornwallis-West who is the same age as her oldest ...
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