Randolph Churchill was married and divorced twice. Randolph Churchill, who died in 1968, was elected to the House of Commons only because he once ran unopposed, and he was once dismissed by a newspaper columnist as “the pale satellite of another’s fame.” He was not,” Churchill said recently.Ĭhurchill, 49, has made his way quietly and surely, unlike his combative father, Randolph, the only son among the five children of Winston and Clementine Churchill. “I wouldn’t see it as wilderness years, because unlike my grandfather I’m actually supportive of the government that’s in power, my own party. The grandson is not friendless, but has been a back-bench exile since 1978 when he defied Conservative Party head Margaret Thatcher, then the opposition leader, by voting to end sanctions against the white-minority government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
#WINSTON CHURCHILL CHILDREN NAMES TRIAL#
I think the real trial for him had been the 1930s, when he could count his political friends on the fingers of one hand, when he was being reviled in the press, on the radio, in Parliament.” “People glibly talk of his finest hour, and most people would have in mind 1940 and the ensuing wartime years,” says the younger Winston Churchill. The grandfather, too, spent long years as just another member of Parliament between 19-a lonely voice urging Britain to face up to the monstrousness of Adolf Hitler’s Germany. With some affection, the opposition lawmaker Tony Banks has said that “anyone who sees the honorable member for Crawley here on a Friday in his weekend clothes cannot but think instantly of Mr. Soames, a pal of Prince Charles, has his grandfather’s round face and monumental physique-”portly, flamboyant, fun,” in the words of Matthew Parris, political satirist for The Times of London. I haven’t yet gotten off the back benches.” When he was that age, he had already been chancellor of the Exchequer. “I don’t have his ability, and I know it,” says Nicholas Soames, who was elected to the House of Commons in 1983. None, as yet, threatens to match their grandfather’s eminence as a statesman, orator, historian and artist. The third generation also includes businessmen, a barrister and a society journalist. In a studio on Long Island, Edwina Sandys is hacking away at pieces of the Berlin Wall to create a sculpture for Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., where Churchill warned the West in 1946 that “an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Churchill and Nicholas Soames are Conservative Party back-benchers-legislative spear carriers-in the House of Commons where 50 years ago their grandfather summoned Britain to a sacrifice of “blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
Three have made it into “Who’s Who,” including two who have followed their grandfather and their fathers into Parliament.
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