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24 de mai. de 2024 · On this day, Sept 12, in 1908, Winston Churchill married his beloved, Clementine Hozier. Clementine was a formidable woman, here Deanna O’Connor delves into her interesting early years and impressive achievements.
Há 21 horas · Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
Há 2 dias · In 1897–98 he wrote Savrola (1900), a Ruritanian romance, and got himself attached to Lord Kitchener’s Nile expeditionary force in the same dual role of soldier and correspondent. The River War (1899) brilliantly describes the campaign.
- As prime minister (1940–45) during most of World War II, Winston Churchill rallied the British people and led the country from the brink of defeat...
- Through his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, a Tory politician, Winston was directly descended from John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, the he...
- At Harrow School, Winston Churchill’s conspicuously poor academic record provoked his father’s decision to enter him into an army career. On his th...
Há 2 dias · Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon (née Spencer-Churchill; 28 June 1920 – 15 November 2021) was an English memoirist and the second wife of Anthony Eden, who served as British prime minister from 1955 to 1957.
Há 21 horas · After its stint at the palace, it travelled to Sotheby’s in New York and London ahead of it’s first ever auction on June 6, where it fetched £660,000 ($842,490); lower than it’s estimate of £800,000 ($1,024,000), but still the second highest price for a portrait of Churchill. “ (Sutherland) caught him in a much more relaxed, intimate ...
15 de mai. de 2024 · Churchill hated this painting and he and his wife Clementine are believed to have destroyed it, a scene recreated in the television series The Crown in which Churchill was portrayed by John Lithgow. Other portraits of Churchill survive, and one that he particularly liked was a simple pen-and-ink drawing by the artist Paul Trevillion.
Há 21 horas · DO YOU realise,’ Winston Churchill wrote to his wife Clementine on June 5, 1944, ‘that by the time you wake up in the morning, 20,000 men may have been killed?’ As the clock ticked down towards the unleashing of Operation Overlord 80 years ago this week, the tension Churchill was experiencing was almost unbearable.
