![]() ![]() What is probably more interesting is the human story it uncovers – the fact that there were cracks in the Winston/Clementine marriage before the war. It’s a fanciful and slightly far-fetched notion that of course never came to pass. If news leaked in the US that Britain’s great wartime leader had been unfaithful to his American wife, US sympathy for the Allied cause could have waned considerably, the thinking goes, and the Second World War may have had a different outcome. So in 1942 he secured her passage home – quite an ask considering the war was on – and was deeply concerned about a painting of his of her that she had in her possession and that was rather suggestive. ![]() There she soon ran out of money and it was feared the affair could expose Britain’s wartime leader to blackmail. ![]() The timeline means it was before Churchill became Prime Minister but they did meet at least once when he was wartime leader – in the US, where Lady Castlerosse was an unhappy exile living in New York in 1942. The programme says the affair began in 1933 in the Chateau de l’Horizon in the south of France and ended in 1937. Why is it historically important?ĭoris Castlerosse taken at Chateau de L'Horizon, French Riviera mid 1930s By early 1937, Castlerosse had moved to Berkeley Square in central London, where, according to Caroline Delevingne, “Winston would come to the house, while the staff were told to leave”. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might neve. I wonder shall we meet again next summer.”Ĭhurchill stayed with Castlerosse at Elliott’s house over the next three summers, each time without his wife. Without Winston Churchills inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Letters from Churchill to Castlerosse include one from 1933, when he wrote: “What fun we had at Maxine’s. “My parents talked about the affair we knew about it,” says Castlerosse’s niece, Caroline Delevingne, in the documentary. He had a brief affair with Doris Castlerosse.” Who else believes it happened? “He was not highly sexed and I don’t think he ever slipped up, except the once. “He did one terrible thing,” Colville says. Colville made a recording in 1985 for the Churchill archives at Churchill College, Cambridge, but it appears no historian or biographer listened to the entire tape - until now. He was also private secretary to Princess Elizabeth, now the Queen, from 1947 to 1949. Colville was assistant private secretary to three prime ministers: Neville Chamberlain, Churchill and Clement Attlee. The truth emerges in three sentences recorded by Churchill’s aide, John “Jock” Colville, two years before he died in 1987. How has the reputed affair now come to light? She also happens to be the great-aunt of the model and actress Cara Delevingne. She had an affair with society photographer Cecil Beaton – even though he was gay – and clearly enraptured Winston Churchill who painted three portraits of her (and only one of his wife) during his life. But she was dazzling in her prime, and possessed what were known at the time as "racehorse legs". ![]()
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