Mary Soames (1922–2014)
Auteur de Clementine Churchill
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Mary Spencer-Churchill was born at Chartwell, in the county of Kent in southeast England, on September 15, 1922. She was the youngest child of former United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill. During World War II, she enlisted as a private and served as a personal aide to her father for afficher plus several summit meetings, including the Potsdam conference in 1945, where her father, President Harry S. Truman and the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin planned the postwar world. She married Christopher Soames and nurtured his career as a prominent Tory politician, ambassador to France, and the last governor of one of Britain's last major colonies, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). After her husband's death in 1987, she wrote a series of books about her family including Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage, which won the Wolfson History Prize, and A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child. She was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Dame of the British Empire. In 2005, Queen Elizabeth appointed her a Ladies Companion of the Garter, Britain's highest chivalric order. She died on May 31, 2014 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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- Autres noms
- Soames, Mary Soames, Baroness
- Date de naissance
- 1922-09-15
- Date de décès
- 2014-05-31
- Lieu de sépulture
- St Martin's Church, Bladon, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, England, UK
Castle Mill House, Odiham, Hampshire, England, UK - Études
- Manor House School, Limpsfield, Surrey, England, UK
- Professions
- biographer
aide-de-camp
autobiographer
British Army - Relations
- Churchill, Winston S. (father)
Churchill, Randolph (brother)
Churchill, Lady Randolph (grandmother)
Churchill, Lord Randolph (grandfather)
Churchill, Sarah (sister)
Devonshire, Deborah (second cousin) (tout afficher 7)
Soames, Christopher (husband) - Organisations
- Auxiliary Territorial Service (WWII)
- Prix et distinctions
- Order of the Garter (Lady Companion ∙ 2005)
Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander)
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)
Order of the British Empire (Member, 1945) - Courte biographie
- Mary Soames, née Spencer-Churchill, was born at her family's estate at Chartwell in Kent, the youngest of the five children of Sir Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine. Early in World War II, she volunteered for the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service (1939 to 1941). In 1941, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women's branch of the British Army, and became an anti-aircraft gunner in London, rising in 1944 to command 230 other women volunteers. She also served as her father's aide-de-camp on several of his overseas missions, including his trip to the Potsdam Conference at the end of the war to meet with President Harry S. Truman and Russian leader Josef Stalin. In 1945, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of her military services. In 1947, she married Conservative politician Christopher Soames (later Baron Soames, making her a Baroness), with whom she had five children. She wrote several books, including an acclaimed biography of her mother, published in 1979; a volume of edited letters between Sir Winston and Lady Churchill; and her memoirs, A Daughter's Tale (2012).
She also served as an invaluable source of information to other historians and biographers of her father.
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- Œuvres
- 7
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- 1
- Membres
- 748
- Popularité
- #33,983
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 39
This book centers on the intense correspondence between husband and wife. My first thought was.... where on Earth did they keep all these letters for over 50 years of marriage. Also, Clementine might have been a very friendly, helpful person, but you still can not compare her with the "normal" women of her time, because most of them did not have the time or means to write their husbands multiple letters (and telegrams) each day. The Churchills were able to always have the help of nannies, secretaries, cooks, etc. to take care of all of these mundane daily chores. I was also surprised to read how often they went on trips (some in GB, but many overseas) and they thought nothing of leaving their children in the care of others for many weeks.… (plus d'informations)