While Churchill saw himself as a British man and was born in 1874 at the Churchill and Spencer-Churchill family’s ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, he had American parentage. His mother, Jennie Jerome, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1854 and was the daughter of Leonard Jer...
Churchill grew up within this background of military glory and patriotism and always had it in mind to preserve and to enhance the grandeur of the British Empire. Churchill’s mother, Jennie Jerome, was the daughter of Leonard Jerome, described as an “American freebooter” and the “King of...
Even though Churchill was exhausted and his health was worsening, he remained a member of parliament until July 1964. The death of a great statesman On 9th April 1963, the American Congress awarded Churchill honorary citizenship of the United States. In the last years of his life he wrote...
Winston Churchill told Lord Robert Boothby: Germany’s most unforgivable crime before the Second World War was her attempt to extricate her economic power from the world’s trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity to profit. So Germany...