Clementine churchill new biography of laura
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New film tells the story of Winston Churchill and his women
Gary Oldman is almost unrecognisable in the part of Churchill, thanks to a face mould and foam bodysuit that took kvartet hours to get in place, while Kristin Scott Thomas plays his stoic wife Clementine.
“These parts have been played so many times by brilliant people, like Harriet Walter in The Crown, there is a great vikt to it because you’ve got to be as good as everyone else,” says Scott Thomas.
“Then there is the thing that struck me when I decided to take this on - I’m trying to portray somebody who is a national treasure.
“Clementine is less well known today than Winston but, at the time, I think she was really important. She was a proper first lady and how do you bring life into something that belongs to everybody? That is public property?
“I think that was very much her situation as well, because her husband was public property, her husband was the prime minister in a very, very tense and worrying time, a ter
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Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters – Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary – would have shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it.
From their father – ‘the greatest Englishman’ – to their brother, golden boy Randolph, to their eccentric and exciting cousins, the Mitford Girls, they were surrounded by a clan of larger-than-life characters which often saw them overlooked. Marigold died when she was very ung but her three sisters lived lives full of passion, skådespel and tragedy …
Diana, intense and diffident; Sarah, glamorous and stubborn; Mary, dependable yet determined – each so different but each imbued with a sense of responsibility toward each other and their country. Far from being cosseted debutantes, these women were eyewitnesses at some of the most important events in world history, including at the Second World War Conferences of Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam.
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Clementine Churchill
Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer (1885–1977)
"Lady Churchill" redirects here. For other uses, see Lady Churchill (disambiguation).
Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill,[1]GBE (née Hozier; 1 April 1885 – 12 December 1977) was the wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and a life peer in her own right. While she was legally the daughter of Sir Henry Hozier, her mother Lady Blanche's known infidelity and his suspected infertility makes her paternity uncertain.
Clementine met Churchill in 1904 and they began their marriage of 56 years in 1908. They had five children together, one of whom (named Marigold) died aged two from sepsis. During the First World War, Clementine organised canteens for munitions workers and during the Second World War, she acted as Chairman of the Red CrossAid to Russia Fund, President of the Young Women's Christian Association War Time Appeal and Chairm