First Lady

by Sonia Purnell

  Churchill, Sally (great-niece) ref1

  Churchill, Sarah (daughter) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40, ref41, ref42, ref43, ref44, ref45, ref46, ref47, ref48, ref49

  Churchill, Winston (grandson) ref1

  Churchill, Winston (husband) vi

  Black Dog and ref1, ref2, ref3

  Boer War and see Boer War

  Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ref1

  Chancellor of the Exchequer ref1, ref2

  childhood ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Colonial Secretary ref1, ref2, ref3

  Conservative Party and see Conservative Party

  courts CC ref1

  death ref1

  defection from Conservative Party to Liberal Party ref1, ref2, ref3

  defection from Liberal Party to Conservative Party ref1, ref2

  eightieth birthday ref1

  elections and see general elections

  family background see under individual family member name

  finances ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28

  First Lord of the Admiralty ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  first meets CC ref1, ref2

  First World War and see First World War

  funeral ref1

  gambling ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  health ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14

  Hitler, warns of danger of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  holidays with CC ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  holidays without CC ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Home Secretary ref1, ref2, ref3

  homes with CC ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27 see also under individual home name

  Leader of the Opposition, 1945–51 ref1

  Liberal Party and see Liberal Party

  loss of power, 1945 ref1

  Minister of Munitions ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  ninetieth birthday ref1

  painting ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  President of the Board of Trade ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Prime Minister, 1940–5 ref1

  Prime Minister, 1951–5 ref1

  reputation, CC as guardian of after death ref1

  retirement as PM ref1, ref2, ref3

  Second World War and see Second World War

  Secretary of State for Air/Secretary of State for War ref1

  separations from CC, frequent ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22

  speeches ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22

  wedding ref1, ref2, ref3

  wedding anniversaries vi, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  ‘wilderness’ years ref1

  writing/journalism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

  Cochran, C.B. ref1

  Cold War, 1945–89 ref1

  Collins, Michael ref1

  Colonial Office ref1, ref2

  Colville, Jock ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26

  Communism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  Congress, US ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Conservative Party ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28

  Convent of the Immaculate Conception, Dieppe ref1

  Coolidge, Calvin ref1

  Cooper, Alfred Duff ref1, ref2

  Cooper, Lady Diana ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Cornwallis-West, George ref1, ref2, ref3

  Cortachy Castle, Scotland ref1, ref2

  Coward, Noël ref1, ref2, ref3

  Craigavon, Lord ref1

  Crewe, Lady ref1, ref2

  Crewe, Lord ref1

  Cromwell Road, Bayswater ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Cromwell, Oliver ref1

  Curzon, Lord ref1, ref2

  Czechoslovakia ref1, ref2

  D-Day, 1944 ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Daily Express ref1, ref2

  Daily Mail ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Daily Mirror ref1

  Daily Telegraph ref1, ref2

  Dardanelles campaign, 1915–16 ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16

  Dardanelles Commission ref1

  de Gaulle, Charles ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Denikin, General ref1

  Dieppe, France ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  Dill, Field Marshal ref1

  Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Dormansland, Surrey ref1, ref2

  Douglas-Home, Sir Alec ref1

  Downing Street, London ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40, ref41, ref42, ref43, ref44, ref45

  Duff, Sheila Grant ref1

  Dunkirk, 1940 ref1

  Dunn, Lady Mary ref1

  Earle, Lionel ref1

  East Bergholt, Suffolk ref1

  East Indies ref1

  Easter Uprising, 1916 ref1

  Eaton Hall, Cheshire ref1

  Eccleston Square, London ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Economist ref1

  Eden, Anthony ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  Eden, Clarissa ref1, ref2, ref3

  Edward VII, King ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Edward VIII, King ref1, ref2

  Egypt ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  Einstein, Albert ref1

  Einstein, Lewis ref1, ref2

  Eisenhower, General ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  El Alamein, battles of, 1942 ref1, ref2

  ELAS ref1

  Elizabeth, Queen ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Elliott, Maxine ref1

  Enchantress ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Essex, Lady ref1, ref2

  Eton College, Berkshire ref1, ref2, ref3

  Falk, Oswald Toynbee ref1

  Fellowes, Reggie ref1

  Ferdinand, Archduke Franz ref1

  First World War, 1914–18 ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16

  Fiset, Lady ref1

  Fisher, Admiral Lord ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Forbes, Alastair ref1

  Foreign Office ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  France ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40, ref41, ref42, ref43, ref44, ref45, ref46, ref47, ref48, ref49, ref50, ref51, ref52, ref53, ref54, ref55, ref56, ref57, ref58, ref59, ref60, ref61, ref62, ref63, ref64, ref65, ref66, ref67, ref68, ref
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  Franco, General ref1

  French Riviera vi, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  French, Sir John ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Frewen, Clare ref1

  Fulmer Chase maternity hospital, Buckinghamshire ref1, ref2, ref3

  Galbraith, John Kenneth ref1

  Gallipoli ref1, ref2

  Garron Tower, Ireland ref1

  Garvin, J.L. ref1

  Gasperi, Alcide De ref1

  Gemmell, Chips ref1, ref2

  General Elections, UK:

  1910, Jan, ref1

  1910, Dec ref1

  1918 ref1, ref2

  1922 ref1

  1923 ref1

  1924 ref1

  1929 ref1

  1935 ref1, ref2

  1945 ref1

  1950 ref1

  1951 ref1, ref2

  1959 ref1

  George V, King ref1, ref2, ref3

  George VI, King ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Germany ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40, ref41, ref42, ref43, ref44, ref45, ref46, ref47, ref48, ref49, ref50, ref51 see also First World War and Second World War

  Girton College, Cambridge ref1

  Gladstone, William ref1, ref2

  Glücksbierg, Daisy Decazes de ref1

  Goebbels, Josef ref1, ref2

  Gone with the Wind (movie) ref1

  Government of India Act, 1935 ref1

  Great Depression, 1929–39 ref1

  Greece ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Grey, Sir Edward ref1, ref2

  Guest, Amy ref1

  Guest, Cornelia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Guest, Freddie ref1, ref2

  Guest, Ivor ref1, ref2

  Guinness, Lee ref1

  Guinness, Posy ref1

  Haldane, Lord Chancellor ref1

  Halifax, Lord ref1, ref2

  Halle, Kay ref1

  Hamblin, Grace ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  Hamilton, Lady Jane ref1, ref2

  Hamilton, Sir Ian ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Harriman, Averell ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20

  Harriman, Kathleen ref1, ref2, ref3

  Harriman (née Digby, later Churchill), Pamela ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35

  Harris, Beatrice ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Harrow School, London ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Heath, Edward ref1

  Hemingway, Ernest ref1

  Henley, Sylvia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Hill, Kathleen ref1

  Hitler, Adolf ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23

  HMS Adventure ref1

  HMS Belfast ref1

  HMS Renown ref1

  HMS Royal Oak ref1

  HMS Thorn ref1

  Hoare, Charles ref1

  Hoe Farm, Godalming, Surrey ref1

  Home Rule ref1, ref2

  Hopkins, Harry ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  Hopkins, Marjorie K. ref1

  Horne, Sir Robert ref1

  House of Commons ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25

  House of Lords ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Howard, Lady Dorothy ref1

  Howells, Roy ref1, ref2

  Hozier, Mary (aunt) ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hozier, Colonel Henry (father) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

  Hozier, Kitty (sister) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

  Hozier, Lady Blanche (mother) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25

  Hozier, William (Bill) (brother) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Hyde Park, London ref1

  Hyde Park estate, New York ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Hyde Park Gardens, London ref1

  Hyde Park Street, London ref1

  Hyde Park Gate, London ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Inches, David ref1, ref2

  Indomitable ref1

  Industrial Intelligence Centre ref1

  influenza epidemic, 1919 ref1

  IRA ref1, ref2

  Ireland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Irish Guards ref1

  Irish Nationalists ref1, ref2, ref3

  Ismay, General Hastings ‘Pug’ ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  Italy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  Japan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  John, Augustus ref1

  Johnson, Dr Hewitt ref1

  Johnson, Mabel ref1, ref2

  Joint Aid to Russia Committee ref1

  Kennedy, Joseph ref1, ref2

  Keppel, Alice ref1, ref2

  Ker, W.P. ref1

  Kerr, Sir Archibald Clark ref1, ref2

  Keyes, Sir Roger ref1

  Keynes, John Maynard ref1, ref2, ref3

  King, Mackenzie ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Kitchener, Lord ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  La Capponcina, French Riviera ref1, ref2, ref3

  La Ferme des Colombiers, France ref1

  La Pausa, French Riviera ref1

  Labour Party ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29

  Landemare, Georgina ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Lascelles, Sir Alan ref1

  Lash, Joseph ref1

  Lavery, John ref1

  Lawrence, T.E. ref1, ref2

  League of Nations ref1

  Lee, Arthur ref1

  Lee, Ruth ref1

  Lend-Lease programme, 1941–5 ref1, ref2

  Lenin, Vladimir ref1

  Leros, Greece ref1

  Leslie, Anita ref1, ref2

  Leslie, Sir Jack ref1

  Liberal Party ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18

  Lief, Dr ref1

  Lindemann, Professor Frederick ‘Prof’ (Lord Cherwell) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Lloyd George, David ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25

  Lochmore, Scotland ref1

  London Evening Standard ref1

  Lord Warden Hotel, Dover ref1, ref2

  Lou Seuil, French Riviera ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Lowther, William ref1

  Luce, Henry ref1

  Luftwaffe ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Lullenden, Sussex ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  Lunghi, Hugh ref1, ref2

  Lutyens, Edwin ref1, ref2, ref3

  Lytton, Neville ref1

  Lytton (née Plowden), Pamela ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  MacDonald, Malcolm ref1

  MacDonald, Ramsay ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Maclean, Donald ref1

  Macmillan, Harold ref1, ref2,
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  Maisie, Aunt (aunt) ref1, ref2

  Maisky, Agnes ref1, ref2

  Maisky, Ivan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Malta ref1, ref2

  Manchester Guardian ref1, ref2

  Margaret, Princess ref1

  Margesson, David ref1

  Marlborough, Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Marlborough, Sunny, Duke of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  Marsh, Eddie ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Martha of Norway, Princess ref1

  Martin, John ref1, ref2

  Maryland, Frinton-on-Sea ref1

  McKenna, Reginald ref1, ref2

  Meiklejohn, Robert ref1

  Mercer, Lucy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Meux, Sir Hedworth ref1

  Middleton, Bay ref1

  Mitford, Baron Redesdale Bertie ref1

  Mitford, David ref1

  Mitford, Debo ref1

  Mitford, Decca ref1, ref2

  Mitford, Diana ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Mitford, Nancy ref1

  Mitford, Sydney ref1, ref2

  Mitford, Tom ref1

  Mitford, Unity ref1, ref2

  Molotov, Vyacheslav ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Montagu, Edwin ref1, ref2

  Montgomery, David ref1, ref2

  Montgomery, General ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Moorehead, Alan ref1

  Moran, Lord ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17

  Morgenthau, Elinor ref1

  Morgenthau, Henry ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Morocco ref1, ref2, ref3

  Morpeth Mansions, London ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Morrison, Herbert ref1, ref2

  Morton, Desmond ref1

  Mosley, Sir Oswald ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Moyne, Lord ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Murrow, Ed ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Murrow, Janet ref1, ref2

  Mussolini, Benito ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  National Trust ref1, ref2

  Nazi Party ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24

  Nazi-Soviet pact, 1939 ref1

  Nesbitt, Henrietta ref1

  New Hall, Cambridge ref1

  New York, U.S. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Newsweek ref1

  Nicholas II, Tsar ref1

  Nicholson, William ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Norway ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Norwich, John Julius ref1, ref2

  Observer ref1, ref2

  Oliver, Vic ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5