The Churchills
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MS – Mary Soames
PH – Pamela Harriman (formerly Pamela Digby Churchill)
RSC – Randolph Spencer Churchill
TKP – Tarka King Papers
WSC – Sir Winston S. Churchill
1
1 Information from Simon Bird.
2 Goa in India was another.
3 Manley: Secret Memoirs, p. 81.
4 Thompson: The First Churchill, p. 19.
5 Green: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, p. 35.
6 WSC: Marlborough, pp. 110–11, 121–8.
7 Hibbert: The Marlboroughs, p. 14.
8 Henrietta Spencer Churchill: Blenheim and the Churchill Family, p. 101.
9 Ibid., p. 92.
10 BL Add. 61457 (f.103) 18 July 1723.
2
1 Henrietta Spencer Churchill: Blenheim and the Churchill Family, p. 109.
2 Harriet Arbuthnot: The Journal of Mrs Arbuthnot 1820–1832, pp. 304–5.
3 Author’s conversation with Lord Digby, January 2007.
4 A.L. Rowse: The Later Churchills, p. 110.
5 Henrietta Spencer Churchill: Blenheim and the Churchill Family, p. 137.
6 Ibid., pp. 139–41.
7 CHAR 28/112. Correspondence between Eton and the 7th Duke of Marlborough, December 1863.
8 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 26.
9 AL: The Fabulous Leonard Jerome, p. 166.
10 AL: Jennie, p. 21.
11 Ibid., pp. 27–8.
12 Ibid., pp. 25–6.
13 RSC: CV1/1, p. 12.
14 RSC: Winston S. Churchill, vol. 1, p. 19.
15 Ibid., p. 14.
16 CVI/i, p. 11.
17 AL: Jennie, p. 27.
18 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill, p. 23.
19 AL: Jennie, p. 31.
20 CHAR 28/41. Randolph to ‘Madame Jerome’, 10 September 1873.
21 Dictionary of National Biography, vol. II Supplement (Chippendale-Hosle), 1901 (Supplement), p. 10.
22 CHAR 28/41. Leonard Jerome to Marlborough, 9 April 1874.
23 BL, Duke of Marlborough to Lord Randolph, 14 April 1874; and RSC: Winston S. Churchill, vol. 1, p. 23.
24 TKP: Leonie Jerome to ‘Gertrude’, 21 April 1874.
3
1 Mrs Cornwallis-West: Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill, p. 57.
2 Ibid., p. 61.
3 Benjamin Disraeli to Queen Victoria, 22 May 1874, quoted in RSC: Winston S. Churchill: Youth, p. 15.
4 Anthony Trollope: Phineas Finn, p. 44 (first published 1869).
5 Mrs Cornwallis-West: Reminiscences, p. 39.
6 TKP: 21 October 1873.
7 AL: The Fabulous Leonard Jerome, p. 18.
8 Mrs Cornwallis-West: Reminiscences, p. 37.
4
1 AL: Edwardians in Love, p. 88.
2 Ibid., p. 88.
3 Ibid., p. 90.
4 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 90.
5 Ibid. p. 91.
6 AL: Edwardians in Love, p. 91.
7 Peregrine Churchill: Jennie, p. 91.
8 Ibid., p. 93.
9 The Times, 12 May 1876.
10 CVI/i, p. 69.
11 Mrs Cornwallis-West: Reminiscences, p. 70.
12 Celia and John Lee: Winston and Jack, p. 28.
13 CV V/iii, p. 267.
14 WSC: My Early Life, pp. 12, 13.
15 Ibid., p. 13.
16 AL: Jennie, p. 76.
17 John S. Churchill: A Churchill Canvas, p. 284.
18 Virginia Woolf: Biography of Roger Fry. This was the last book written by Woolf before her suicide. Her description of St George’s School was derived from letters sent to his parents by Fry.
19 Ibid.
20 CVI/i, pp. 94–5.
21 Ibid., p. 88.
22 Ibid.
23 Henrietta Spencer Churchill: Blenheim and the Churchill Family, p. 153.
24 Ibid. p. 153
5
1 Lord Rosebery, quoted in AL: Jennie, p. 97.
2 TKP: JC to her mother, 21 November 1880.
3 AL: Jennie, p. 97.
4 CHAR 28/7/6–7.
5 AL: Edwardians in Love, p. 195.
6 New York Times obituary, 10 November 1892.
7 Ibid.
8 CHAR 28/98/38–9.
9 CHAR 28/98/f28–8.
10 AL: Jennie, p. 87.
11 John S. Churchill: A Churchill Canvas, p. 23.
12 AL: Jennie, p. 93.
13 Ibid., p. 82.
14 WSC: My Early Life, pp. 21–2.
15 CVI/i, p. 256. (WSC to Jack).
16 AL: Jennie, p. 93.
17 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt papers: unpublished ms 28, ‘Secret Memoirs’ (1975), vol. 4, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
18 Letter from Henry Labouchère to Lord Rosebery dated 25 November 1885, quoted in R.F. Foster: Lord Randolph Churchill, p. 217.
19 AL: Jennie, p. 89.
20 RSC: Winston S. Churchill: Youth, p. 72.
21 Ibid., p. 73.
22 Ibid., p. 75.
23 AL: Jennie, p. 107.
24 CVI/i, p. 214.
25 Ibid., p. 518.
26 Ibid., pp. 113, 127.
27 CHAR 28/42 8 September [1886].
28 CHAR 28/42 10 September [1886].
29 CHAR 28/42 26 September [1886].
30 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 154. Fanny Churchill to JC, 19 November 1886.
31 George Cornwallis-West: Reminiscences, p. 141.
32 R.F. Foster: Lord Randolph Churchill, p. 319.
6
1 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 161. Letter from JC to Lord Randolph Churchill dated 21 February 1887.
2 Ibid., p. 160. Letter from JC to Lord Randolph Churchill dated 15 February 1887.
3 Ibid., p. 160. Letter from JC to Lord Randolph Churchill dated February 1887; p. 162.
4 Ralph Martin: Lady Randolph Churchill, p. 218.
5 AL: Jennie, p. 138.
6 BL. Blenheim Papers. Also quoted in Martin: Lady Randolph Churchill, p. 219.
7 AL: Jennie, p. 172.
8 John Colville: The Churchillians, p. 19.
9 CVI/i, p. 386.
10 CHAR 28/14/53–4.
11 CVI/i, p. 424.
12 Ibid., p. 566.
13 Ibid., p. 496.
14 Ibid., p. 591.
15 TKP.
16 Ibid.
17 CVI/i, p. 531.
18 Anthony Montague Browne: The Long Sunset, p. 122.
19 CVI/i, p. 547.
20 Ibid., p. 502.
21 WSC: My Early Life, p. 36.
22 John Colville: The Churchillians, p. 18.
23 Lord Randolph Churchill: Churchill: Youth, pp. 62, 74.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid., p. 50.
26 CVI/i, p. 545.
27 AL: Jennie, p. 178.
28 RSC: Churchill: Youth, p. 255.
29 Ibid.
30 CVI/i, p. 559.
31 AL: Jennie, p. 178
7
1 CVI/i, p. 578.
2 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 28.
3 Author interview: Julia Budworth, recalling conversation with Lady Sydney Redesdale.
4 CHAR 28/42/23. 29 July 1894, p. 4.
5 Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough: An Untold Story, pp. 109–10.
6 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 33.
7 The World, 16 February 1895.
8 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 36.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid., p. 37.
12 Ibid., p. 40.
13 RSC: Churchill: Youth, p. 267.
14 CVI/i, p. 600.
15 Ibid.
16 Transcript of speech on NATO website. Quoted in RSC: Churchill: Youth, p. 282.
17 RSC: Churchill: Youth: p. 282.
18 Ibid., p. 270.
19 New York Herald, 7 November 1895.
20 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p.
46.
8
1 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 52.
2 Ibid., p. 53.
3 Lady Angela Forbes: Memories and Base Details, pp. 84, 87.
4 WSC: My Early Life, p. 92.
5 RSC: Churchill: Youth, p. 276.
6 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 55.
7 Ibid., p. 55.
8 Ibid., p. 57.
9 CVI/i, p. 503.
10 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 59.
11 Ibid., p. 60.
12 Ibid., p. 76.
13 Ibid., p. 84.
14 Ibid., p. 93.
15 CHAR CA1/8/107. Dated 21 September 1897.
16 Hugo Vickers: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, p. 12.
17 Daphne Fielding: The Face on the Sphinx, p. 4.
18 Hugo Vickers: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, p. 41.
19 Ibid., p. 42.
20 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 98.
21 Ibid., p. 99.
22 Ibid., p. 99.
9
1 RSC: Churchill: Youth, p. 297.
2 Ibid., p. 318.
3 Ibid., pp. 352–3.
4 Ibid., pp. 296–7.
5 Observer, Sunday 9 November 2003, article about auction of Pamela Plowden’s letters.
6 RSC: Churchill: Youth, p. 320.
7 CHAR. 28/24/20 19/1/1898.
8 Jennie to WSC, 3 March 1897, CV I/ii, p. 743.
9 WSC to JC, 28 January 1898, CVI/ii, p. 743.
10 CHAR 28/152/145. WSC to Jack Churchill, 16 February 1898.
11 CVI/i, p. 676.
12 AL: Jennie, p. 214.
13 Ibid., p. 194.
14 CVI/i, p. 256.
15 CVI/ii, p. 1232.
16 CHAR 28/26/2. 11 January 1899.
17 George Cornwallis-West: Edwardian Hey-days, p. 102.
18 CHAR 28/64/19. Prince of Wales to JC.
19 WSC: My Early Life, pp. 195–9.
20 AL: Jennie, p. 222.
21 Ibid., pp. 223–4.
22 RSC: Churchill: Youth, p. 452.
23 Ibid.
10
1 J.B. Atkins: Incidents and Reflections, p. 122.
2 WSC: My Early Life, p. 257.
3 J.B. Atkins: Incidents and Reflections, p. 107.
4 WSC: My Early Life, p. 274.
5 Ibid., p. 273.
6 RSC: Churchill: Youth, p. 483.
7 WSC: My Early Life, p. 274.
8 Ibid., p. 311.
9 CVI/ii, p. 506.
10 Ibid., p. 507.
11 WSC: My Early Life, p. 355.
12 RSC: Churchill: Youth, p. 510.
13 Maria Theresa von Hochberg: Daisy, Princess of Pless, p. 72.
14 WSC: My Early Life, pp. 320–21.
15 CV I/ii, p. 507.
16 CVI/ii, p. 510.
17 CV I/ii, p. 512.
18 WSC: My Early Life, pp. 366–7.
19 Lady Sarah Wilson: South African Memories, p. 99.
20 Ibid., p. 100.
21 Daily Mail, 26 March 1900.
22 Lady Sarah Wilson: South African Memories, p. 106.
23 Quoted in Earl of Birkenhead: Churchill, p. 114.
11
1 CHAR 28/26/59–60.
2 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 225.
3 Seymour Leslie: The Jerome Connection, p. 55.
4 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 225.
5 Ibid.
6 AL: Jennie, p. 263.
7 Peterborough Examiner. Undated article on WSC’s stay in Peterborough, Ottawa on 1 January 1901.
8 WSC: My Early Life, p. 377.
9 RSC: Churchill: Youth, p. 544.
10 CHAR 28/26/22.
11 RSC: Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 2.
12 Ibid., p. 7.
13 Earl Winterton: Churchill the Parliamentarian, p. 51.
14 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 220.
15 CHAR 28/35/62.
16 CVI/ii, p. 1043.
17 CHAR 28/35/62.
18 John Colville: The Churchillians, p. 112.
19 AL: Jennie, p. 264.
20 Ibid., p. 264.
21 CVI/ii, p. 1209.
22 Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen: My Diaries 1900–1914, pp. 74–5.
23 Violet Bonham Carter: Winston Churchill as I Knew Him, p. 18.
24 Ibid., p. 19.
25 Quoted in William Manchester: The Last Lion, p. 367.
26 CHAR 8/16. RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 127.
27 Amanda Mackenzie Stuart: Consuelo and Alva, p. 248.
28 Hugo Vickers: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, p. 67.
29 Ibid. And Amanda Mackenzie Stuart: Consuelo and Alva, p. 256.
30 Princess Daisy of Pless: My Private Diary, p. 69.
31 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 134.
32 Amanda Mackenzie Stuart: Consuelo and Alva, pp. 262–3.
33 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 3.
34 Birkenhead: Churchill 1874–1922, p. 112
12
1 Cynthia Gladwin: Diaries, p. 230.
2 RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 249.
3 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 5.
4 CVII/i, p. 331.
5 CVII/i, pp. 455/6.
6 RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 81.
7 Ibid., p. 83.
8 CVII/i, p. 388.
9 George Cornwallis-West: Edwardian Hey-days, p. 119.
10 CVII/i, p. 341.
11 CVII/i, p. 393. Cornelia Wimborne to WSC.
12 CVII/i, p. 409.
13 RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, pp. 141–2.
14 Edward Marsh: A Number of People: A Book of Reminiscences, pp. 148–9.
15 CHAR 28/128/27. JC to George Cornwallis-West.
16 Quoted in Amanda Mackenzie Stuart: Consuelo and Alva, p. 269.
17 CVII/i, p. 588. CHAR 28/27/63. WSC to JC, 13 October 1906.
18 CHAR 28/78/44. JC to WSC.
19 CVII/i, p. 588/9 (October 1906).
20 CVII/i, p. 593 (20 October 1906).
21 CHAR 1/57/9. 21 October 1906.
22 CHAR 28/78/45.
23 CHAR 1/57/27.
24 B.H. Friedman: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: A Biography, p. 230.
25 CHAR 1/57/18. c. October 1906.
26 CHAR 1/65/1. 4 January 1907.
27 CHAR 1/65/8–10. 31 January 1907.
28 CVII/ii, p. 691.
13
1 King Edward VII to WSC, 6 April 1907, quoted in RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 211.
2 John S. Churchill: A Churchill Canvas (Little, Brown, Boston, 1961), p. 16.
3 CVII/ii, p. 704. Jack Churchill to WSC 21 November 1907.
4 Cynthia Asquith: Remember and Be Glad, p. 88.
5 CVII/ii, p. 677.
6 Ibid., p. 679.
7 Hugo Vickers: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, p. 114.
8 CVII/ii, pp. 695–7.
9 CVII/ii, pp. 705–6.
10 CVII/ii, p. 738.
11 Quoted in RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, pp. 231–3.
12 CVII/ii, p. 707.
13 CVII/ii, p. 706.
14 CVII/ii, p. 723.
15 CVII/ii, p. 729.
16 RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 236.
17 George Cornwallis-West: Edwardian Hey-days, p. 119.
18 CVII/ii, p. 738.
19 RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 256.
20 CVII/ii, pp. 754–6.
21 Ibid.
22 Margot Asquith to WSC, 28 March 1908. Quoted in CVII/ii, pp. 756–7.
23 CVII/ii, pp. 781–2; RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, pp. 251–2; MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 7.
24 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 8.
25 Quoted in RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 257.
26 Ibid., p. 260.
27 CVII/ii, pp. 798–9.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: My Diaries, vol. 2 (14 August 1908).
31 CVII/ii, p
p. 804–5.
32 CVII/ii, p. 804.
33 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: My Diaries, vol. 2 (12 September 1908).
34 CVII/ii, pp. 804–5.
35 CHAR 28/27/86. CVII/ii, p. 819.
14
1 The final sentence in WSC: My Early Life.
2 John Colville: The Churchillians, p. 20.
3 Ibid., p. 21.
4 MS: Clementine Churchill, p. 93.
5 CVII/ii, p. 902.
6 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 20.
7 Ibid., p. 23: and CVII/2, p. 893.
8 Ibid., p. 24.
9 Ibid., p. 28.
10 Ibid., p. 29.
11 Ibid., p. 30.
12 Daisy, Princess of Pless: My Private Diary, p. 163.
13 CHAR 28/78/74.
14 CVII/ii, p. 901.
15 Ibid., p. 915.
16 Ibid., p. 916.
17 MS: Speaking for Themselves, pp. 37–8.
18 Andrew Rosen: Rise Up, Women!, p. 126.
19 The Times, 30 March 1912.
20 CVII/ii, pp. 1082–3.
21 CVII/ii, p. 1083.
22 Theodore Roosevelt to Whitelaw Read, in Henry Pringle: Theodore Roosevelt, and quoted in Hugo Vickers: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, p. 108.
23 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 154.
24 Ibid., p. 156.
25 Ibid., p. 157.
26 CHAR 28/78/73.
27 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 234.
28 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 53.
29 Ibid., p. 54.
30 RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 531.
31 Quoted in ibid., p. 528.
32 MS: Speaking for Themselves, pp. 72–3.
33 WSC: The World Crisis, p. 104.
34 Quoted in RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 697.
35 Ivor Courtney, WSC’s instructor, quoted in ibid., pp. 697–8.
36 Quoted in RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, p. 699.
37 Ibid., p. 703.
38 Ibid., pp. 704–5.
39 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 240.
40 Quoted in Amanda Mackenzie Stuart: Consuelo and Alva, p. 359.
15
1 Quoted in RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, pp. 682–3.
2 Ibid., p. 681.
3 MS: Speaking for Themselves, pp. 69–71.
4 Quoted in RSC: Churchill: Young Statesman, pp. 710–11.
5 Ibid., pp. 714–15.
6 CHAR 28/33/4–5.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 CHAR 28/135.
10 Ibid.
11 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 98.
12 Quoted in Elisabeth Kehoe: Fortune’s Daughters, p. 297.
13 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 248.
14 AL: Jennie, p. 307.
15 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 249.
16 Lady Fortescue: There’s Rosemary, pp. 69–70; and quoted in Amanda Mackenzie Stuart: Consuelo and Alva, p. 282.
17 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 71 (7 February 1913).