A Woman to Know: Clementine Churchill
I always feel so overwhelmingly in your debt, if there can be accounts in love. — Winston, to Clementine
(portrait by Eve Arnold, image via National Portrait Gallery)
Yes, Churchill like *that* Churchill.
"I think she realized she couldn't be the ordinary wife," biographer Sonia Purnell wrote.
No indeed.
Add to your reading list:
Biography of a Marriage (Mary Churchill Soames)
First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill (Sonia Purnell)
Read more:
Before Hillary or Michelle, there was Clementine (The Washington Post)
Winston Churchill's love letter to his wife Clementine (TIME)
Winston Churchill's Wife Made Him Great (The Daily Beast)
Behind every great man is a great woman (Express)
How Clementine Churchill triumphed as a political consort (The Independent)
Private diaries of Lady Mary Soame (The Daily Mail)
6 surprising facts about Clementine Churchill (History Extra)
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