Ibid.
13
Cecil Beaton, Diaries 1955–63: The Restless Years, p146
14
Soames, Clementine Churchill, p39
15
Letter from Beatrice Harris to WSC, 19 March 1941, Berkhamsted School
16
CSCT 3/8
17
Author’s interview with Shelagh Montague Browne
18
Ibid.
19
Ibid.
20
Lady Cynthia Asquith, Diaries, p494
21
Christopher Hassall, Edward Marsh: A Biography, p131
22
Randolph S. Churchill, WSC 1:2, p989
23
Winston Churchill, Savrola, p42
24
Ibid., p19
25
Lord Birkenhead, Churchill, p112
26
Michael Shelden, Young Titan, p104
27
Arthur Lee, A Good Innings, p97
28
Jack Fishman, My Darling Clementine, p24
29
CSCT 2/1
30
Ibid.
31
Ibid.
32
Former secretary Nonie Chapman, recorded in CHOH 3
33
CSCT 2/1
34
Fishman, My Darling Clementine, p26
35
CSCT, undated
36
CSCT, undated
37
Mabell Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold, p125
38
Fishman, My Darling Clementine, p28
39
Anita Leslie, Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, p280
40
Violet Bonham Carter, Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1904–1914, 16 August 1908, p163
41
Asquith Papers, MS Bonham Carter 153
CHAPTER 2: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
1
Soames, Clementine Churchill, p56
2
CHAR, 20 September 1908
3
Violet Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, pxxviii
4
Diary of Margot Asquith, Asquith Papers, MS Eng. d.3206
5
Bonham Carter, Lantern Slides, p171
6
Author’s interview with Shelagh Montague Browne
7
CHAR, 31 August 1895; quoted in Anne Sebba, American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, p208
8
Sebba, American Jennie, p289
9
Celia Sandys, The Young Churchill, p160
10
Ibid., p107
11
Ashley Jackson, Churchill, p33
12
Stefan Buczacki, Churchill and Chartwell, p41
13
CSCT, 3 May 1913
14
Martin Gilbert, WSC IV, pp893–4
15
CSCT, 30/31 May 1909
16
CSCT, 1 June 1909
17
MS Bonham Carter 165
18
Violet Bonham Carter, Churchill As I Knew Him, p260
19
Ibid., p235
20
Soames, Clementine Churchill, p65
21
CSCT, 6 September 1909
22
CSCT, 11 September 1909
23
CSCT, 27 July 1914
24
CSCT, 12 September 1909
25
CSCT 1/5, 7 August 1911
26
CSCT, 3 November 1909
27
CSCT, 10 November 1909
28
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, The Glitter and the Gold, p132
29
Sebba, American Jennie, p212
30
CSCT, 30 January 1913
31
CSCT, 31 January 1913
32
Shelden, Young Titan, p218
33
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, My Diaries, Vol. II, 5 September 1909, pp267–71
34
Viscount Esher, Journals and Letters of Reginald Viscount Esher, 1 December 1909
35
Hassall, A Biography of Edward Marsh, p346
36
Soames, Clementine Churchill, p100
37
CSCT, 18 October 1909
38
Gilbert, WSC II, p120
39
Lord George Riddell, More Pages from my Diary; quoted in Ted Morgan, Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, p317
40
Paul Addison, Churchill: The Unexpected Hero, p48
41
Gilbert, WSC, Companion Vol IV, p800
42
CSCT, 18 September 1909
43
CSCT, 14 July 1912
44
Soames, Clementine Churchill, p72
45
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Collection, Fitzwilliam Museum 11/1975, 30 January 1911
46
William Manchester, The Last Lion: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932, p411
47
Soames, Clementine Churchill, p78
48
CSCT, 19 December 1910
49
CSCT, undated, but probably 3 June 1911
50
MS Bonham Carter 154, Letters to Venetia, 2 October 1911
51
CHAR, 10 February 1910
52
CSCT, 18 April 1912
53
CSCT, 25 March 1912
54
H.H. Asquith to WSC, quoted in Gilbert, WSC II, Part III, p1483
55
MS Bonham Carter 155
56
Diary of Margot Asquith, Asquith Papers, MS Eng. d.3206
57
Morgan, Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, p332
58
CSCT, 23 July 1913
59
CSCT 1/8
60
Fishman, My Darling Clementine, p37
61
CSCT, 29 June 1911
62
CSCT, 29 April 1914
63
CSCT, 23 April 1914
64
CSCT, 27 April 1914
65
CSCT 1/8
66
I am grateful for this summary from Michael Shelden in Young Titan.
CHAPTER 3: THE PAIN AND THE PRIDE
1
CSCT, 14 August 1914
2
CHAR, 12 January 1916
3
William Manchester, Last Lion III: Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965, p484; Gilbert, WSC III, p59
4
Asquith to Venetia Stanley, 2 November 1914. H.H. Asquith, Letters to Venetia Stanley, p305
5
Gilbert, WSC III, pp824–5
6
CSCT, 19 September 1914
7
Diary of Margot Asquith, MS Eng. d.3210, fos 97–113
8
CSCT, 26 September 1914
9
5 October 1914, Letters to Venetia Stanley, p263
10
CSCT 3/16
11
Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Harriman, p67
12
Manchester, Last Lion III, p440; Gilbert, WSC II, p565
13
26 February 1915, Letters to Venetia Stanley, p450
14
Soames, Clementine Churchill, p137
15
Roy Jenkins, Churchill, pp270–1
16
Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill As I Knew Him, p21
17
Gilbert, WSC VIII, p1070
18
Asquith Papers, MS Eng. 27, 20 May 1915
19
Gilbert, WSC III, p459. Quoted in Morgan, Churchill, pp525�
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20
Diary of Margot Asquith, MS Eng. d.3198–3218, 20 May
21
Ibid.
22
Asquith Papers, MS Eng. lett. c.542/1, fos 89–92
23
Montagu papers, 27 April 1915
24
Letters to Venetia Stanley, 10 January 1915
25
Ibid., 26 January 1915
26
Ibid., 1 February 1915
27
Asquith Papers, MS Eng. c.6678, general correspondence to Margot from Keith-Lytton, 15 May 1915
28
Letters to Venetia Stanley, p116, referring to letter 342, p479
29
Fishman, My Darling Clementine, p57
30
Christopher Hassall, Edward Marsh: A Biography, p479
31
Fishman, My Darling Clementine, p57
32
Author’s interview with Edwina Sandys
33
Shelden, Young Titan, p321
CHAPTER 4: I BELIEVE IN YOUR STAR
1
CSCT, 19 November 1915
2
CSCT, 21 November 1915
3
Ibid.
4
CSCT, 19 November 1915
5
CSCT, 23 November 1915
6
Ibid.
7
CSCT, 27 November 1915
8
CSCT, 21 November 1915
9
CSCT, 21 March 1916
10
CHAR, 15 March 1916
11
Lord Riddell’s War Diary 1914–1918, p66, March 1916
12
CSCT, 12 August 1923
13
CSCT, 25 November 1915
14
Jenkins, Churchill, p396
15
Bonham Carter, Churchill As I Knew Him, p132
16
Mary Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, pxiv
17
CSCT, 4 December 1915
18
CSCT, 6 December 1915
19
CSCT, 17 December 1915
20
CSCT, 18 December 1915
21
CSCT, 20 December 1915
22
CSCT, 7 January 1916
23
CSCT, 1 December 1915
24
CSCT, 28 December 1915
25
CHAR, 30 December 1915
26
CSCT, 3 January 1916
27
CHAR, 7 January 1916
28
CHAR, 9 January 1916
29
CHAR, 11 January 1916
30
CHAR, 16 January 1916
31
Bonham Carter, Winston As I Knew Him, p445
32
CHAR, 16 February 1916
33
CSCT, 17 December 1915
34
CSCT, 16 March 1916
35
William Manchester, First Lion, p591
36
CHAR, 29 January 1916
37
CHAR, 31 January 1916
38
CHAR, 24 January 1916
39
CSCT, 27 January 1916
40
CHAR, 4 February 1916
41
Bonham Carter, Winston As I Knew Him, p384
42
CSCT, 1 December 1915
43
CSCT, 6 December 1915
44
CSCT, 28 November 1915
45
CHAR, 30 January 1916
46
CHAR, 23 February 1916
47
CHAR, 27 February 1916
48
Bonham Carter, Winston As I Knew Him, p449
49
Hansard, 7th Series, vol. 80, col. 1430, quoted in Jenkins, Churchill, p306
50
CHAR, 13 March 1916
51
CSCT, 13 March 1916
52
CHAR, 24 March 1916
53
CSCT, 21 March 1916
54
CHAR, 6 April 1916
55
CHAR, 25 March 1916
CHAPTER 5: MARRIED LOVE
1
Bonham Carter, Winston As I Knew Him, p466
2
Ibid., p22
3
Richard Hough, Winston & Clementine, p365
4
Lord Beaverbrook, Politicians and the War 1914–1916, p82
5
CSCT, 8 September 1918
6
CSCT, 10 September 1918
7
CSCT, 15 September 1918
8
CSCT, 29 October 1918
9
Soames, Clementine Churchill, p213
10
CHAR, 11 August 1918
11
Lady Jean Hamilton’s diaries, 10 August 1919. Hamilton Papers, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London
12
Lady Jean Hamilton’s diaries, 21 June 1918, quoted in Celia Lee, Jean, Lady Hamilton 1861–1941: A Soldier’s Wife, pp198–9
13
CSCT, 29 October 1918
14
CSCT, 12 September 1918
15
Lynne Olson, Troublesome Young Men, p163
CHAPTER 6: LOSS UNIMAGINABLE
1
CSCT, 9 March 1919
2
Anthony Montague Browne, Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Last Private Secretary, p124; John Colville, The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955, p677
3
CSCT, 14 September 1919
4
Jackson, Churchill, p171
5
For more details on the Churchills’ homes, see Buczacki, Churchill and Chartwell.
6
Buczacki, Churchill and Chartwell, p91
7
Buczacki, Churchill and Chartwell, pp91–2
8
Jenkins, Churchill, p187
9
CSCT, 27 January 1921
10
CSCT, 7 February 1922
11
Soames, Clementine Churchill, p223
12
CHAR, 21 February 1921
13
Walter H. Thompson, Assignment: Churchill, p7
14
Ibid., p13
15
Ibid., p15
16
McKenna Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge; Morgan, Churchill, p282
17
Anita Leslie, Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, p305
18
CSCT, 22 March 1925
19
John Pearson, Citadel of the Heart, p88
20
CHAR, 4 January 1922
21
CSCT, 4 January 1922
22
CSCT, 10 August 1922
CHAPTER 7: A CHANDELIER’S LIFE AND SPARKLE
1
Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry, p22
2
Gilbert, WSC IV, p878
3
CHAR, 9 November 1922
4
Buczacki, Churchill and Chartwell, p129
5
Author’s interview with Heather White-Smith
6
CSCT, 17 February 1924
7
CSCT, 15 March 1925
8
Thompson, Assignment, p45
9
Pearson, Citadel of the Heart, p205
10
Roy Howells, Simply Churchill, p40
11
Soames, Clementine Churchill, p283
12
Author’s interview with Lady Williams, née Jane Portal
13
Buczacki, Churchill and Chartwell, p134
14
Ibid., p145
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