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The young, timorous Clementine had few friends and was devoted to her dog, Carlo. She never got over his death under the wheels of a train. © National Trust
Before her marriage, Clementine was often seen in the tie and shirt collar combination favoured by suffragists. Once she married Winston she spent many years trying to recruit him to the cause, with varying levels of success. © From the Collection of Lord Stanley of Alderley
Clementine arriving at St Margaret’s Church in Westminster for the ‘Wedding of the year’ on 12 September 1908. © Mary Evans Picture Library
Clementine was considered to have the profile of a queen. She was hotly pursued by eligible young (and older) men, and broke off at least two engagements. © Mary Evans Picture Library
Winston and Clementine emerge from the church to huge crowds. Her dress was hailed as elegant and beautiful; his attire was deemed to lend him the air of a ‘glorified coachman’. © Mary Evans Picture Library
Nellie and Blanche Hozier wave the newlyweds off on their honeymoon. © Mary Evans Picture Library
Clementine and Winston endured cheers and jeers together. He was widely admired as First Lord of the Admirality at the beginning of the First World War, but such popularity was not to last. © Mary Evans Picture Library
Clementine broke the mould for political wives by accompanying Winston to all-male rituals including watching Army manoeuvres, such as here at Aldershot in 1910. Her sense of style was noteworthy, and she would become widely admired for her dress-sense. © Press Association Images
Clementine was more athletic than her husband and an impressive tennis player. Here she is playing in Surbiton in May 1920. © Press Association Images
At the height of the Dardanelles debacle in 1915, Clementine was welcomed back to her old school by her headmistress Beatrice Harris, who had imbued her with ideas of female independence. Clementine never forgot her encouragement and example. © Berkhamsted School
Sir John Lavery painted this portrait of Clementine and her daughter Sarah in the spring of 1916, when Winston was away in the trenches. Many believe it captures her profound sadness at the time. © National Portrait Gallery, London
Clementine with Marigold, her third daughter, who died in tragic circumstances in 1921 when only two years old. © Mary Evans Picture Library
Winston, Clementine and Sarah watching the troops of the Brigade of Guards, 22 January 1919. Winston, although often an absent father, was natually warm and spontaneous with his children when they were young. © Press Association Images
Clementine was fearless on horseback. Here she is with Winston and Randolph in 1933 wild boar hunting as guests of the Duke of Westminster in France. © Mary Evans Picture Library
Clementine (far left in white) visited the Pyramids on camel-back in 1921 with a party that included Winston (on her left), Gertrude Bell (third from left) and T. E. Lawrence (fourth from left). © Churchill family
Clementine with the suave art dealer Terence Philip on board the Rosaura in 1935. She was thrown into his company on her cruise to the South Seas with dramatic results. © Churchill Archives Centre
‘Fast’ but not ‘wild’, Pamela Digby (third from left) married Randolph (centre) in October 1939. The ill-fated marriage launched her career as ‘the twentieth century’s most influential courtesan’. © Central Press/Getty Images
Clementine was very proud of her ‘soldiering’ daughter Mary, who became her most trusted confidante. Here she was visiting a gun site with Mary and Winston on 30 June 1944. © Press Association Images
Clementine’s Aid to Russia Fund was perhaps her greatest work apart from Winston, of course. It set a new bar for charity fundraising, raising astonishing sums of money from a cash-strapped nation. © British Red Cross Museum and Archive
Tablecloth embroidered with names including the Duke of Gloucester, Lady Edwina Mountbatten, the Princess Royal and Clementine Churchill. The tablecloth was embroidered from signatures obtained at the ‘Bring and Buy’ shop at Streatham Hill Congregational Church. © British Red Cross Museum and Archive
Dressed in her Red Cross uniform, Clementine became a huge success on her 1945 tour of Russia. Stalin was said to resent the popular appeal of Churchill’s wife. © British Red Cross Museum and Archive
Winston buying a flag for Clementine’s Aid to Russia Fund. Such pictures were sometimes released to disguise the fact that he was actually on a secret mission overseas. © IWM
Winston described Clementine and her Aid to Russia Fund as the one bright spot in Anglo-Russian relations during the war. © British Red Cross Museum and Archive
Clementine in 1943. She thought dressing up and a touch of glamour especially important in wartime and rarely failed to deliver. © William Hustler and Georgina Hustler/National Portrait Gallery, London
Clementine understood that entertainment and a ‘lack of class feeling’ was essential to raise morale during both world wars. Here she takes to the floor with a worker at an arms factory in the North of England in January 1942. © Press Association Images
Clementine was known
for her full-throated laugh, which was more raucous than Winston’s quiet chuckle. Many thought her ‘cackle’ rather contagious. Here she is laughing heartily on a visit to Chigwell, in Essex, during the election campaign shortly after VE Day. © Press Association Images
Two First Ladies of war: Eleanor Roosevelt was keen to drag Clementine into the limelight with her and here they are broadcasting together in Quebec in September 1944. Clementine admired Eleanor’s easy, chatty style and public works but Winston was not such a fan. © Press Association Images
Animals of all sorts played a major part in Churchill family life – not always to Clementine’s liking. Here, however, she cuddles the first of two successive poodles named Rufus while taking an elegant afternoon tea with Winston at Chartwell. In an unusually intimate picture taken after he was ejected as Prime Minister in 1945 – and before he returned to office in 1951 – Winston looks rather cross and it seems Clementine was, as she often did at his low points, trying to cheer him up. © William Sumits/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Clementine received the insignia of the Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire from the King at Buckingham Palace in July 1946. She is flanked by her daughters Mary on the left and Sarah on the right. © Press Association Images
Relaxing in Hendaye, France, 1945 shortly after VE Day. Holidays together were rare – they disagreed profoundly on companions and destination. On the left Clementine reads the papers with Mary. © Mary Evans Picture Library
Clementine addresses the audience after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature on behalf of her husband in December 1953. She learned to handle big events with aplomb. © S&G Barratts/EMPICS Archive
Clementine attends the premiere in Leicester Square, London, of Sarah’s 1951 film Wedding Bells. Mary looks the picture of health on the right, but Diana’s struggles are clearly taking their toll. © AP/Press Association Images
Clementine was a devoted if not exactly cosy grandmother. Here she is in November 1954 at the christening of Charlotte Clementine Soames, her grand-daugher. Also pictured are Mary and Christopher Soames with their children, Nicholas, Emma and Jeremy as well as Diana (second from left) – as godmother – and her husband Duncan Sandys. © S&G Barratts/EMPICS Archive