1. Whatever her true paternity, Clementine Churchill is recorded as being the daughter of Lady Blanche and Sir Henry.
17 Facts About Clementine Churchill
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Clementine Churchill was educated first at home, then briefly at the Edinburgh school run by Karl Frobel, the nephew of the German educationist, Friedrich Frobel, and his wife Johanna and later at Berkhamsted School for Girls in Berkhamsted Hertfordshire and at the Sorbonne in Paris.
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Clementine Churchill was twice secretly engaged to Sir Sidney Peel, who had fallen in love with her when she was 18.
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Winston and Clementine Churchill were married on 12 September 1908 in St Margaret's, Westminster.
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Clementine Churchill travelled to Dundee in 1922, campaigning on behalf of her husband in the 1922 general election while he was incapacitated after having his appendix removed.
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Clementine Churchill brought back from this trip a Bali dove.
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Clementine Churchill waited for her host to offer a conciliatory word but, when none came, she stormed back to her cabin, wrote a note to Moyne, and packed her bags.
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Lady Broughton came and begged Clementine Churchill to stay, but she would accept no apologies for the insult to her husband.
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Clementine Churchill went ashore and sailed for home the next morning.
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Clementine Churchill was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Glasgow, University of Oxford and University of Bristol.
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Clementine Churchill sat as a cross-bencher, but her growing deafness precluded her taking a regular part in parliamentary life.
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Lady Spencer-Clementine Churchill died at her London home, at 7 Princes Gate, Knightsbridge, of a heart attack on 12 December 1977.
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Clementine Churchill was 92 years old and had outlived her husband by almost 13 years, as well as three of her five children.
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Clementine Churchill is buried with her husband and children at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock in Oxfordshire.
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Clementine Churchill was played by Virginia McKenna in the 1974 television biopic The Gathering Storm opposite Richard Burton.
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Clementine Churchill was played by Vanessa Redgrave in the 2002 biographical television movie The Gathering Storm.
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Clementine Churchill was featured in Jack Thorne's 2023 play When Winston Went to War with the Wireless, played by Laura Rogers.