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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2022 17:50:58 GMT
annesebba.com/2010/07/21/reviews-of-jennie-churchill-winstons-american-mother/I received an invitation today with my latest edition of The Spectator , to celebrate the launch of a new biography, “Jennie Churchill, Winston’s American Mother “, by Anne Sebba. It boasts that she was “outspoken, dazzlingly beautiful and had 200 lovers.” And although she married three times, the real love of her life was her son Winston. Wikipedia charts many of her reputed lovers, including royalty. Throughout her life and all three marriages, Jennie conducted extra-marital affairs, initially to strengthen the social and political position of her first husband, Lord Randolph Churchill. Her third husband was three years younger than Winston. Yet she seemed to get away with her promiscuous life, retaining her title Lady Randolph Churchill. Even when the title was no longer officially hers, she was so welcome in royal circles that no one seemed to object. Could you handle 200 lovers and, if so, do you think you would still be highly regarded by your circle of friends and colleagues? I doubt it, can you imagine the complications? And while it’s not a lifestyle we encourage today, it is endlessly fascinating to read about those who have done so. Lady Churchill’s life was certainly colourful and extraordinary, especially compared to the privileged “It” girls of today.
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2022 17:53:27 GMT
annesebba.com/2010/07/21/reviews-of-jennie-churchill-winstons-american-mother/Jennie Churchill was the wife of the most celebrated political enfant terrible of his day, Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of Winston, the most famous Englishman of all. Little wonder that, squashed between these two alpha males, Lady Randolph Churchill has usually been seen as a walk-on part. Raven-haired and fiery-eyed, “Black Jane” is alleged to have slept with 200 men. She is chiefly remembered for being a bad mother to the infant Winston, leaving him to the tender mercies of Nannie Everest. Anne Sebba’s gripping new biography is a sharp and intelligent reassessment of Jennie’s life, and it nails a number of myths.
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2022 17:57:17 GMT
www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/winston-churchill-his-mother-and-the-philandering-prince-6783567.htmlWinston Churchill's mother had a two-year sexual liaison with King Edward VII, the Queen's great-grandfather, according to a new book. Lady Randolph also swindled the wartime Prime Minister and his brother, Jack, out of part of their inheritance from their father Lord Randolph Churchill when she remarried, hitherto unseen family letters reveal. The correspondence also shows Winston wrongly implied that his parents neglected him, and that minimised Jack's role in family history in order to inflate his own reputation.
These remarkable assertions are made by husband-and-wife historians Celia and John Lee in their new biography of the Churchill family, based on thousands of documents kept secret for years in a locked room by Winston's late nephew, Peregrine Churchill.
Celia Lee had agreed to help Peregrine on a family biography, restoring his father Jack to what he considered his rightful place as the pragmatic, helpful heart of the spendthrift Churchill clan. When Peregrine died of a heart attack in 2002, Celia spent seven years sifting through the goldmine of papers entrusted to her by Peregrine's widow, Yvonne. The cache, she discovered, included scores of intimate notes from the King when he was Prince of Wales to Peregrine's grandmother.
Lady Randolph — the vivacious, resourceful American socialite and heiress née Jennie Jerome — married Lord Randolph Churchill, the third son of the Duke of Marlborough and a maverick Tory MP, in April 1874. She gave birth to Winston that November — of his "premature" birth, more later — and Jack, christened John, was born in 1880.
The Churchills' position in London society, and Jennie's ambitions for her husband and sons, brought them into regular contact with Prince Albert Edward, Queen Victoria's heir, known as Bertie. The Prince was renowned for his sexual appetite and a string of mistresses, and reportedly held wife-swapping parties in his London home. Jennie, a dark beauty who has also been characterised as a sexual adventurer, did not escape his attention.
Following long discussions with his father before his death, Peregrine Churchill was able to tell Celia that, as early as 1889, Lord Randolph had returned home to find the Prince and his wife together, scandalously unchaperoned, and angrily threw the Prince out. The Lees' book notes that the first condolence letter Jennie received after her husband's death in 1895 was from the Prince, headed "My Dear Lady Randolph". But within a year, he was addressing her far more intimately as "ma chère". She, in turn, christened the portly Prince "Tum Tum".
Bertie's later missives ask if he can visit her for a "Japanese tea", where she would apparently wear a loose kimono (a note from a dressmaker relating to such a garment is in the collection), or promise meetings where Jennie would have her "entertainments". He teases her, suggesting that she should stick by "old friends" rather than chase after new amours, and wondering "where your next loved victim is". Jennie's own notes back to the Prince are lost as he ordered all his private correspondence to be burned after his death, although other letters she wrote openly referring to other affairs survive.
But notes from Jennie to her schoolboy sons — including one where she suggests the Prince will name a new puppy after Jack, and another written on the Prince's Sandringham notepaper — indicate a familiarity beyond that of a widow and a royal "friend". The Lees suggest Jennie enjoyed a privileged position as official mistress, "La Favourite", above criticism, as Celia puts it. John adds that Jennie never made the mistake of falling in love with the Prince, unlike another mistress, Alice Keppel.
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Post by kueifei on Aug 19, 2022 2:47:40 GMT
Is there a reason that the Spencers refuse to practice basic self respect? This family is out of control in all areas. Even the famous Duchess of Devonshire was no better than a pointless tramp.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2022 18:17:24 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 18, 2022 18:38:40 GMT
Yet refuse to comment on what their descendents, William and now Harry, are allegedly doing to the Crown? Yeah, right, sweetie.
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Post by kueifei on Nov 3, 2023 20:59:50 GMT
Amazing how this family (like so many aristocrats) live so well but manage and invest money so badly. I'll never understand why money management and intelligent investing is considered a low profession.
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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2023 18:02:56 GMT
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Post by kueifei on Apr 30, 2024 21:53:58 GMT
Yet refuse to comment on what their descendents, William and now Harry, are allegedly doing to the Crown? Yeah, right, sweetie. The real issue here is that this family is one of the least worthy of titles and respect. I am glad Frances had the guts and financial means to escape that mess of a marriage.
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Post by india on May 16, 2024 0:19:33 GMT
Yet refuse to comment on what their descendents, William and now Harry, are allegedly doing to the Crown? Yeah, right, sweetie. The real issue here is that this family is one of the least worthy of titles and respect. I am glad Frances had the guts and financial means to escape that mess of a marriage. Yes, it was a good thing she got out. He was beating the hell out of her. Poor Thing.
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Post by kueifei on May 16, 2024 3:14:16 GMT
The real issue here is that this family is one of the least worthy of titles and respect. I am glad Frances had the guts and financial means to escape that mess of a marriage. Yes, it was a good thing she got out. He was beating the hell out of her. Poor Thing. Point blank, HME should have been more supportive and THANK GOD Frances did not end up buried among all the other abused and subjugated women. For Diana to think, to EVER think that her mother just upped and left for a lover is a huge slap in her mother's face and frankly put, I am fed up of hearing Frances described as some kind of ogre who ran off for a lover. She left a wife beater of a husband, not just a boorish husband. Frances had a right to get out and thankfully she had the means to do so.
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Post by Admin on May 16, 2024 14:50:25 GMT
Yes, it was a good thing she got out. He was beating the hell out of her. Poor Thing. Point blank, HME should have been more supportive and THANK GOD Frances did not end up buried among all the other abused and subjugated women. For Diana to think, to EVER think that her mother just upped and left for a lover is a huge slap in her mother's face and frankly put, I am fed up of hearing Frances described as some kind of ogre who ran off for a lover. She left a wife beater of a husband, not just a boorish husband. Frances had a right to get out and thankfully she had the means to do so. Exactly. On another royal note, Prince Albert's mother was drummed out of the family, allegedly due to claims of having a lover and had her reputation tarnished for centuries, now. (The real story more earth-shaking in royal terms, trust me) My point being is to be wary of those setting the narratives - there is always more to the story. Way more.
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