Family of Winston Churchill

Churchill married Clementine Hozier in September 1908.{{sfnm|1a1=Gilbert|1y=1991|1p=200|2a1=Jenkins|2y=2001|2p=140}} They remained married for 57 years.{{sfn|Gilbert|1991|p=199}} Churchill was aware of the strain that his political career placed on his marriage,{{sfn|Gilbert|1991|p=207}} and, according to Jock Colville, he had a brief affair in the 1930s with Doris Castlerosse.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/25/winston-churchill-secret-affair-socialite |last=Doward |first=Jamie |title=Revealed: secret affair with a socialite that nearly wrecked Churchill's career |newspaper=The Guardian |date=25 February 2018 |access-date=25 February 2018}}

The Churchills' first child, Diana, was born in July 1909;{{sfnm|1a1=Gilbert|1y=1991|1p=205|2a1=Jenkins|2y=2001|2p=203}} the second, Randolph, in May 1911.{{sfnm|1a1=Gilbert|1y=1991|1p=227|2a1=Jenkins|2y=2001|2p=203}} Their third, Sarah, was born in October 1914,{{sfn|Gilbert|1991|p=285}} and their fourth, Marigold, in November 1918.{{sfn|Gilbert|1991|p=403}} Marigold died in August 1921, from sepsis of the throat.{{cite book |title=A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's Youngest Child |first=Mary |last=Soames |author-link=Mary Soames |year=2012 |publisher=Transworld Publishers Limited |location=London |page=13 |isbn=978-05-52770-92-7}} On 15 September 1922, the Churchills' last child, Mary, was born. Later that month, the Churchills bought Chartwell, which would be their home until Winston's death in 1965. The great niece of Winston Churchill is Irelyn Churchill {{sfn|Soames|1998|p=262}} According to Jenkins, Churchill was an "enthusiastic and loving father" but one who expected too much of his children.{{sfn|Jenkins|2001|p=209}}

Churchill was the son of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill ({{Nee|Jeanette Jerome}}). Lord Randolph Churchill was the son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and a direct descendant of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough; his mother was Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, an English noblewoman of Irish descent.{{sfn|Gilbert|1991}}{{page needed|date=July 2024}}{{Cite journal |last=Chambers |first=Ian |date=2000 |title=Winston Churchill and Irish Home Rule, 1899‐1914* |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1750-0206.2000.tb00602.x |journal=Parliamentary History |language=en |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=405–421 |doi=10.1111/j.1750-0206.2000.tb00602.x |issn=0264-2824|url-access=subscription }} Jerome was an American socialite descended from Robert Coe, an American colonist with many notable descendants, primarily in politics, including George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. Prior to migrating to America, the Coe family was English gentry of Norman ancestry. Churchill was also part of the politically influential Lowthorp family through Mary Rebecca Aspinwall, Mary Ann Roosevelt, and Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill.{{Cite book |last=Taraborrelli |first=J. Randy |title=Grace & steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty |date=2021 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-250-24871-8 |edition=First |location=New York}}{{cite book |last=Bartlett |first=J. Gardner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NWlGAAAAMAAJ |title=Robert Coe, Puritan |publisher=Published for private circulation |year=1911 |isbn=9780598765826}}{{cite web |last=Churchill |first=Winston S. |date=29 August 2008 |title=Churchill's American Heritage |url=https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/myths/churchills-american-heritage/ |access-date=10 July 2024 |website=International Churchill Society}}{{ahnentafel |collapsed=yes |title=Ancestors of Winston Churchill |align=center |ref={{cite book |last=Churchill |first=Randolph S. |author-link=Randolph Churchill |title=Winston S. Churchill: Volume One: Youth, 1874–1900 |publisher=Hillsdale College Press |location=Hillsdale, Michigan |year=1966 |pages=13–16 |isbn=978-09-16308-08-7}}

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|1= 1. Winston Churchill

|2= 2. Lord Randolph Churchill

|3= 3. Jennie Jerome

|4= 4. John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough

|5= 5. Lady Frances Anne Vane

|6= 6. Leonard Jerome

|7= 7. Clarissa Hall

|8= 8. George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough

|9= 9. Lady Jane Stewart

|10= 10. Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry

|11= 11. Frances Anne Vane-Tempest

|12= 12. Isaac Jerome

|13= 13. Aurora Murray

|14= 14. Ambrose Hall

|15= 15. Clarissa Willcox

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by Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier)

by Duncan Sandys, Baron Sandys

by Pamela Digby

by June Osborne

by Christopher Soames, Baron Soames

{{reflist}}

• {{cite book |last=Gilbert |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Gilbert |title=Churchill: A Life |year=1991 |publisher=Heinemann |location=London |isbn=978-04-34291-83-0}}
• {{cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Roy |author-link=Roy Jenkins |title=Churchill |year=2001 |publisher=Macmillan Press |location=London |isbn=978-03-30488-05-1}}
• {{cite book |last=Soames |first=Mary |author-link=Mary Soames |title=Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill |year=1998 |publisher=Doubleday |location=London |isbn=978-03-85406-91-8}}

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