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Há 20 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 20 horas · The myth continues. Without any evidence we are left only with family legends, passed along through the generations. Clarissa Willcox’s daughter Clarissa (“Clara”) (1825-1895) married Leonard Jerome (1817-1891) in 1849. Jennie, the future Lady Randolph (1854-1921) was the second of their four daughters.
Há 20 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 ...
Há 1 dia · He attended Winston Churchill's funeral in January 1965. He was frail by that time, and had to remain seated in the freezing cold as the coffin was carried, having tired himself out by standing at the rehearsal the previous day.
Há 5 dias · He was married to Pamela Harriman from 1939 to 1946, and they had one son—also named Winston and later a Conservative MP. Randolph was unsuccessful in parliamentary elections in 1945, 1950, and 1951.
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Há 8 horas · The episode ends with Churchill’s wife Clementine (played by Harriet Walter) watching it burn on a bonfire outside their home. Evidently, he was not a fan. While “The Crown” is not a documentary, it is true that the 80th birthday portrait —described by Churchill as “filthy and malignant” in a letter to his personal doctor — was burned.
Há 20 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.
