A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's youngest child - Softcover
At ninety years old, Mary Soames is the only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. A Daughters Tale follows her early life from an idyllic childhood in her own Garden of Eden at Chartwell to her ATS service in mixed anti-aircraft batteries during the war. With glimpses into her fascinating personal diary, published here for the first time, she draws us into a world where the experiences of a packed family, social and romantic life unfold against a background of cataclysmic events.When Chamberlains declaration of war in 1939 shatters Marys world, she begins to share the anxieties and stresses suffered by her family through her fathers position. The mutual love between Mary and her parents is evident on every page, from her Chartwell years to Winstons defeat at the 1945 general election, when she recounts her own devastation on her fathers behalf. As she meets her future husband Christopher Soames at the end of this charming memoir, it is clear that, at twenty-four, Mary has lived a full life and is well prepared for her future as wife and mother.
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Mary Soames is the youngest and only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. She was born in 1922 and brought up at Chartwell in Kent. In 1941, aged eighteen, she joined the ATS and served in mixed anti-aircraft batteries in England and Europe. She accompanied her father as his ADC on several of his wartime overseas journeys. In 1945 she was awarded the MBE (military). In 1947 she married Captain Christopher Soames, Coldstream Guards, later Lord Soames, PC, GCMG, CH. She has also written her mother's biography, Clementine Churchill and edited Speaking For Themselves, the personal letters between her parents.
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"Perceptive, funny, always totally honest, it provides an unequalled view of the corridors of power."--"The Spectator"
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- Publication date2012
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- ISBN 13 9780552770927
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