Clementine churchill new biography vancouver

Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer (1885–1977)

"Lady Churchill" redirects here.

A long overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill's closest confidante, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor.

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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