In 1947, Mary Churchill married ‘Conservative’ politician Christopher Soames (afterward Baron Soames). Her birth followed the sudden death in 1921 of her sister Marigold, aged just two-and-a-half, from tonsillitis.
Her father believed that anti-aircraft batteries were taking up too many men and that women could easily do a lot of the work, so Mary joined a mixed-sex AA unit in Enfield. She did not stay disoriented for long. “She started taking me skiing in Austria and Switzerland. From that perspective, I came across a lot of material that was perhaps overlooked by other scholars. I’m hoping they are drawn to the story and will sink into this past period as if they were there. What surprised you the most about Churchill? Soon, Lady Soames will start to write her own memoirs.
In the meantime, Mary was the perfect wife and mother, and wrote her best-selling book about her mother’s life, which won the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. “That’s me when I was four,” she says, as she pours the coffee. This was leadership by demonstration.
She kept a daily diary that is absolutely charming.
Churchill was in the bath and numerous important telephone calls were coming in. In those early years, I had no perception of him as a great man but, in my teens, I started reading newspapers and realised that he was in something called 'public life'.
The illness was contracted while her mother was staying with the Duke and Duchess of Westminster in Cheshire and spotted so late by the then nanny that there was nothing Clementine could do but watch helplessly and weep. “It was very expensive to run, with eight or nine servants in the house and three gardeners, as well as father’s secretaries, and the fragility of my parents’ economic raft worried her terribly. “Then there were artists such as Sickert and people such as Lawrence of Arabia, who I thought was wonderful. Proud papa: Sir Winston Churchill gives his daughter away at her marriage to Christopher Soames (left); Sir Winston, with his daughter Mary (Lady Soames) and son-in-law Christopher (right), as he leaves their home at Hamsell Manor, Eridge Green, near Tunbridge Wells, in January 1964, a year before his death, Uncle Joe: To the outside world Stalin was known as a mass murderer but Mary Soames remembered him in her diary as 'small, dapper and rather twinkly', Lawrence of Arabia: Mary Soames popped downstairs before bedtime to find Lawrence with his 'amazing, piercing blue eyes' in the drawing room, Franklin Roosevelt, president of the United States from 1933-1945. To him, the only way to really defeat any effort by Hitler to invade England was by increasing fighter strength so the Luftwaffe could never achieve air superiority. He'd write all morning, paint all afternoon and gamble all evening, so she took to coming home again once she'd spent a few days there so as not to hurt their hostesses.". I think what really hurt him was the idea that suddenly he had no meaningful work to do. Mary was an attractive girl and love bloomed in that ‘very jolly atmosphere’.
Larson, author of the New York Times best sellers The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake, details Churchill’s boldness in standing alone against the Nazi menace by urging his countrymen to overcome hopelessness and fight back. I only had a bowler hat and always acted as the dogsbody to open gates and pick up her riding crop if she dropped it. He’s doing bayonet drills to the strains of martial music from the gramophone. Mary accompanied her father on several of his trips outside the country. But, instead of brushing me off, he bent his great mind to thinking where I should walk my dog.
“She was very upright, very Scottish, very religious,” said Lady Soames, “and it was she who gave me my faith.
His family was spread out throughout London. He was very companionable, unlike my father, who was very self-centred and lived life on his own terms. She knew she was going to have to be away a lot because of Father's involvement in politics.
If he was in the right mood, he'd pick a quarrel with a chair. “When she went away to school, I missed her terribly but, when she came home for holidays, it was wonderful. An Interview with Mary Soames “Father Always Came First, Second And Third” Finest Hour 116, Autumn 2002.
For eight short weeks, she was engaged to Eric, Lord Duncannon, son of the Earl and Countess of Bessborough. One lived one’s life by the sitting and rising of the House of Commons.
"It all happened in the rush of the war," she recalled. 17th Annual Photo Contest Finalists Announced.
As Churchill’s daughter, Mary Soames had the run of 10 Downing Street and helped arrange dinner with Stalin. The only thing she hated was being sent to a new unit. In speeches, he roused their patriotism, and in mingling with them, following a night of bombing, they heard words of revenge and saw tears of sympathy. She was with Christopher again when, in 1979, as governor of Rhodesia, he handed over that last great remnant of the Empire to an apparently benign Robert Mugabe.
But, instead of brushing me off, he bent his great mind to thinking where I should walk my dog.
I probably have 10,000 pages of material from documents. Christopher would grumble at times - 'Your mother would never have left me alone in Bedford like this', he'd say - but he didn't pressurise me as Papa did Mother. Mary Soames led an amazing life. We used to ride for hours on the sofa arms.
One lived one's life by the sitting and rising of the House of Commons.
She obviously had a way with her.”, There was, inevitably, speculation about who Clementine’s father really was, and a general belief that it was most unlikely to have been Blanche’s husband, Henry. He was not going to cower in a shelter during a raid. It took me out of the present. Any why now?
There would be great harouches where you’d be shouted at for not turning the lights off.
There was a very jolly atmosphere. We got on our knees for prayer-time every night; and she found me a very good children's service, not far from Chartwell, in a parish with a very magnetic priest. That would create, Hitler said, “, There were personal moments, weekends at Chequers and Ditchley House in Oxfordshire.
Still under military age, she worked as a billeting officer for the WVS in Aylesbury. Writing about Churchill, dwelling in that world, was really a lovely place for me. Frederick Edward Neuflize "Eric" Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough DL (29 March 1913 – 5 December 1993), styled Viscount Duncannon from 1920 to 1956, was a British diplomat, businessman, playwright, Conservative politician, and peer.
But I do think Nana made a great difference.
‘I don’t know why I turned out like this while others had such problems,’ she once said.
We had two teams and, when you were off duty, you were meant to be getting some sleep.
“She almost came out by proxy, and she would have felt it keenly, though she never mentioned it.
It was much easier when I was in the ranks.
Her mother played no part in her debut.”, So, although Clementine was much admired when she came out, she was both nervous and lacking in confidence after such a strange, unhappy childhood.
As a matter of fact, she did become a churchgoer in the last years of her life. Father, on the other hand, was frightfully noisy when he lost his temper. Clementine's insecure, fatherless childhood also helps to explain the fact that she suffered from both hysteria and deep depressions throughout her life. To me, she was a goddess figure, though she was always accessible.
In 1945, she was at Potsdam with him and helped to arrange his dinner with Stalin—whom she remembers as “small, dapper and rather twinkly”—and Harry Truman.
In 1947, Mary Churchill married ‘Conservative’ politician Christopher Soames (afterward Baron Soames). Her birth followed the sudden death in 1921 of her sister Marigold, aged just two-and-a-half, from tonsillitis.
Her father believed that anti-aircraft batteries were taking up too many men and that women could easily do a lot of the work, so Mary joined a mixed-sex AA unit in Enfield. She did not stay disoriented for long. “She started taking me skiing in Austria and Switzerland. From that perspective, I came across a lot of material that was perhaps overlooked by other scholars. I’m hoping they are drawn to the story and will sink into this past period as if they were there. What surprised you the most about Churchill? Soon, Lady Soames will start to write her own memoirs.
In the meantime, Mary was the perfect wife and mother, and wrote her best-selling book about her mother’s life, which won the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. “That’s me when I was four,” she says, as she pours the coffee. This was leadership by demonstration.
She kept a daily diary that is absolutely charming.
Churchill was in the bath and numerous important telephone calls were coming in. In those early years, I had no perception of him as a great man but, in my teens, I started reading newspapers and realised that he was in something called 'public life'.
The illness was contracted while her mother was staying with the Duke and Duchess of Westminster in Cheshire and spotted so late by the then nanny that there was nothing Clementine could do but watch helplessly and weep. “It was very expensive to run, with eight or nine servants in the house and three gardeners, as well as father’s secretaries, and the fragility of my parents’ economic raft worried her terribly. “Then there were artists such as Sickert and people such as Lawrence of Arabia, who I thought was wonderful. Proud papa: Sir Winston Churchill gives his daughter away at her marriage to Christopher Soames (left); Sir Winston, with his daughter Mary (Lady Soames) and son-in-law Christopher (right), as he leaves their home at Hamsell Manor, Eridge Green, near Tunbridge Wells, in January 1964, a year before his death, Uncle Joe: To the outside world Stalin was known as a mass murderer but Mary Soames remembered him in her diary as 'small, dapper and rather twinkly', Lawrence of Arabia: Mary Soames popped downstairs before bedtime to find Lawrence with his 'amazing, piercing blue eyes' in the drawing room, Franklin Roosevelt, president of the United States from 1933-1945. To him, the only way to really defeat any effort by Hitler to invade England was by increasing fighter strength so the Luftwaffe could never achieve air superiority. He'd write all morning, paint all afternoon and gamble all evening, so she took to coming home again once she'd spent a few days there so as not to hurt their hostesses.". I think what really hurt him was the idea that suddenly he had no meaningful work to do. Mary was an attractive girl and love bloomed in that ‘very jolly atmosphere’.
Larson, author of the New York Times best sellers The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake, details Churchill’s boldness in standing alone against the Nazi menace by urging his countrymen to overcome hopelessness and fight back. I only had a bowler hat and always acted as the dogsbody to open gates and pick up her riding crop if she dropped it. He’s doing bayonet drills to the strains of martial music from the gramophone. Mary accompanied her father on several of his trips outside the country. But, instead of brushing me off, he bent his great mind to thinking where I should walk my dog.
“She was very upright, very Scottish, very religious,” said Lady Soames, “and it was she who gave me my faith.
His family was spread out throughout London. He was very companionable, unlike my father, who was very self-centred and lived life on his own terms. She knew she was going to have to be away a lot because of Father's involvement in politics.
If he was in the right mood, he'd pick a quarrel with a chair. “When she went away to school, I missed her terribly but, when she came home for holidays, it was wonderful. An Interview with Mary Soames “Father Always Came First, Second And Third” Finest Hour 116, Autumn 2002.
For eight short weeks, she was engaged to Eric, Lord Duncannon, son of the Earl and Countess of Bessborough. One lived one’s life by the sitting and rising of the House of Commons.
"It all happened in the rush of the war," she recalled. 17th Annual Photo Contest Finalists Announced.
As Churchill’s daughter, Mary Soames had the run of 10 Downing Street and helped arrange dinner with Stalin. The only thing she hated was being sent to a new unit. In speeches, he roused their patriotism, and in mingling with them, following a night of bombing, they heard words of revenge and saw tears of sympathy. She was with Christopher again when, in 1979, as governor of Rhodesia, he handed over that last great remnant of the Empire to an apparently benign Robert Mugabe.
But, instead of brushing me off, he bent his great mind to thinking where I should walk my dog.
I probably have 10,000 pages of material from documents. Christopher would grumble at times - 'Your mother would never have left me alone in Bedford like this', he'd say - but he didn't pressurise me as Papa did Mother. Mary Soames led an amazing life. We used to ride for hours on the sofa arms.
One lived one's life by the sitting and rising of the House of Commons.
She obviously had a way with her.”, There was, inevitably, speculation about who Clementine’s father really was, and a general belief that it was most unlikely to have been Blanche’s husband, Henry. He was not going to cower in a shelter during a raid. It took me out of the present. Any why now?
There would be great harouches where you’d be shouted at for not turning the lights off.
There was a very jolly atmosphere. We got on our knees for prayer-time every night; and she found me a very good children's service, not far from Chartwell, in a parish with a very magnetic priest. That would create, Hitler said, “, There were personal moments, weekends at Chequers and Ditchley House in Oxfordshire.
Still under military age, she worked as a billeting officer for the WVS in Aylesbury. Writing about Churchill, dwelling in that world, was really a lovely place for me. Frederick Edward Neuflize "Eric" Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough DL (29 March 1913 – 5 December 1993), styled Viscount Duncannon from 1920 to 1956, was a British diplomat, businessman, playwright, Conservative politician, and peer.
But I do think Nana made a great difference.
‘I don’t know why I turned out like this while others had such problems,’ she once said.
We had two teams and, when you were off duty, you were meant to be getting some sleep.
“She almost came out by proxy, and she would have felt it keenly, though she never mentioned it.
It was much easier when I was in the ranks.
Her mother played no part in her debut.”, So, although Clementine was much admired when she came out, she was both nervous and lacking in confidence after such a strange, unhappy childhood.
As a matter of fact, she did become a churchgoer in the last years of her life. Father, on the other hand, was frightfully noisy when he lost his temper. Clementine's insecure, fatherless childhood also helps to explain the fact that she suffered from both hysteria and deep depressions throughout her life. To me, she was a goddess figure, though she was always accessible.
In 1945, she was at Potsdam with him and helped to arrange his dinner with Stalin—whom she remembers as “small, dapper and rather twinkly”—and Harry Truman.
In 1947, Mary Churchill married ‘Conservative’ politician Christopher Soames (afterward Baron Soames). Her birth followed the sudden death in 1921 of her sister Marigold, aged just two-and-a-half, from tonsillitis.
Her father believed that anti-aircraft batteries were taking up too many men and that women could easily do a lot of the work, so Mary joined a mixed-sex AA unit in Enfield. She did not stay disoriented for long. “She started taking me skiing in Austria and Switzerland. From that perspective, I came across a lot of material that was perhaps overlooked by other scholars. I’m hoping they are drawn to the story and will sink into this past period as if they were there. What surprised you the most about Churchill? Soon, Lady Soames will start to write her own memoirs.
In the meantime, Mary was the perfect wife and mother, and wrote her best-selling book about her mother’s life, which won the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. “That’s me when I was four,” she says, as she pours the coffee. This was leadership by demonstration.
She kept a daily diary that is absolutely charming.
Churchill was in the bath and numerous important telephone calls were coming in. In those early years, I had no perception of him as a great man but, in my teens, I started reading newspapers and realised that he was in something called 'public life'.
The illness was contracted while her mother was staying with the Duke and Duchess of Westminster in Cheshire and spotted so late by the then nanny that there was nothing Clementine could do but watch helplessly and weep. “It was very expensive to run, with eight or nine servants in the house and three gardeners, as well as father’s secretaries, and the fragility of my parents’ economic raft worried her terribly. “Then there were artists such as Sickert and people such as Lawrence of Arabia, who I thought was wonderful. Proud papa: Sir Winston Churchill gives his daughter away at her marriage to Christopher Soames (left); Sir Winston, with his daughter Mary (Lady Soames) and son-in-law Christopher (right), as he leaves their home at Hamsell Manor, Eridge Green, near Tunbridge Wells, in January 1964, a year before his death, Uncle Joe: To the outside world Stalin was known as a mass murderer but Mary Soames remembered him in her diary as 'small, dapper and rather twinkly', Lawrence of Arabia: Mary Soames popped downstairs before bedtime to find Lawrence with his 'amazing, piercing blue eyes' in the drawing room, Franklin Roosevelt, president of the United States from 1933-1945. To him, the only way to really defeat any effort by Hitler to invade England was by increasing fighter strength so the Luftwaffe could never achieve air superiority. He'd write all morning, paint all afternoon and gamble all evening, so she took to coming home again once she'd spent a few days there so as not to hurt their hostesses.". I think what really hurt him was the idea that suddenly he had no meaningful work to do. Mary was an attractive girl and love bloomed in that ‘very jolly atmosphere’.
Larson, author of the New York Times best sellers The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake, details Churchill’s boldness in standing alone against the Nazi menace by urging his countrymen to overcome hopelessness and fight back. I only had a bowler hat and always acted as the dogsbody to open gates and pick up her riding crop if she dropped it. He’s doing bayonet drills to the strains of martial music from the gramophone. Mary accompanied her father on several of his trips outside the country. But, instead of brushing me off, he bent his great mind to thinking where I should walk my dog.
“She was very upright, very Scottish, very religious,” said Lady Soames, “and it was she who gave me my faith.
His family was spread out throughout London. He was very companionable, unlike my father, who was very self-centred and lived life on his own terms. She knew she was going to have to be away a lot because of Father's involvement in politics.
If he was in the right mood, he'd pick a quarrel with a chair. “When she went away to school, I missed her terribly but, when she came home for holidays, it was wonderful. An Interview with Mary Soames “Father Always Came First, Second And Third” Finest Hour 116, Autumn 2002.
For eight short weeks, she was engaged to Eric, Lord Duncannon, son of the Earl and Countess of Bessborough. One lived one’s life by the sitting and rising of the House of Commons.
"It all happened in the rush of the war," she recalled. 17th Annual Photo Contest Finalists Announced.
As Churchill’s daughter, Mary Soames had the run of 10 Downing Street and helped arrange dinner with Stalin. The only thing she hated was being sent to a new unit. In speeches, he roused their patriotism, and in mingling with them, following a night of bombing, they heard words of revenge and saw tears of sympathy. She was with Christopher again when, in 1979, as governor of Rhodesia, he handed over that last great remnant of the Empire to an apparently benign Robert Mugabe.
But, instead of brushing me off, he bent his great mind to thinking where I should walk my dog.
I probably have 10,000 pages of material from documents. Christopher would grumble at times - 'Your mother would never have left me alone in Bedford like this', he'd say - but he didn't pressurise me as Papa did Mother. Mary Soames led an amazing life. We used to ride for hours on the sofa arms.
One lived one's life by the sitting and rising of the House of Commons.
She obviously had a way with her.”, There was, inevitably, speculation about who Clementine’s father really was, and a general belief that it was most unlikely to have been Blanche’s husband, Henry. He was not going to cower in a shelter during a raid. It took me out of the present. Any why now?
There would be great harouches where you’d be shouted at for not turning the lights off.
There was a very jolly atmosphere. We got on our knees for prayer-time every night; and she found me a very good children's service, not far from Chartwell, in a parish with a very magnetic priest. That would create, Hitler said, “, There were personal moments, weekends at Chequers and Ditchley House in Oxfordshire.
Still under military age, she worked as a billeting officer for the WVS in Aylesbury. Writing about Churchill, dwelling in that world, was really a lovely place for me. Frederick Edward Neuflize "Eric" Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough DL (29 March 1913 – 5 December 1993), styled Viscount Duncannon from 1920 to 1956, was a British diplomat, businessman, playwright, Conservative politician, and peer.
But I do think Nana made a great difference.
‘I don’t know why I turned out like this while others had such problems,’ she once said.
We had two teams and, when you were off duty, you were meant to be getting some sleep.
“She almost came out by proxy, and she would have felt it keenly, though she never mentioned it.
It was much easier when I was in the ranks.
Her mother played no part in her debut.”, So, although Clementine was much admired when she came out, she was both nervous and lacking in confidence after such a strange, unhappy childhood.
As a matter of fact, she did become a churchgoer in the last years of her life. Father, on the other hand, was frightfully noisy when he lost his temper. Clementine's insecure, fatherless childhood also helps to explain the fact that she suffered from both hysteria and deep depressions throughout her life. To me, she was a goddess figure, though she was always accessible.
In 1945, she was at Potsdam with him and helped to arrange his dinner with Stalin—whom she remembers as “small, dapper and rather twinkly”—and Harry Truman.
Following her cremation, her remains were buried beside her husband’s, inside the Churchill plot at ‘St. "He did very well with my parents, you know.
Then there was Winston.
In 1947, Mary Churchill married ‘Conservative’ politician Christopher Soames (afterward Baron Soames). Her birth followed the sudden death in 1921 of her sister Marigold, aged just two-and-a-half, from tonsillitis.
Her father believed that anti-aircraft batteries were taking up too many men and that women could easily do a lot of the work, so Mary joined a mixed-sex AA unit in Enfield. She did not stay disoriented for long. “She started taking me skiing in Austria and Switzerland. From that perspective, I came across a lot of material that was perhaps overlooked by other scholars. I’m hoping they are drawn to the story and will sink into this past period as if they were there. What surprised you the most about Churchill? Soon, Lady Soames will start to write her own memoirs.
In the meantime, Mary was the perfect wife and mother, and wrote her best-selling book about her mother’s life, which won the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. “That’s me when I was four,” she says, as she pours the coffee. This was leadership by demonstration.
She kept a daily diary that is absolutely charming.
Churchill was in the bath and numerous important telephone calls were coming in. In those early years, I had no perception of him as a great man but, in my teens, I started reading newspapers and realised that he was in something called 'public life'.
The illness was contracted while her mother was staying with the Duke and Duchess of Westminster in Cheshire and spotted so late by the then nanny that there was nothing Clementine could do but watch helplessly and weep. “It was very expensive to run, with eight or nine servants in the house and three gardeners, as well as father’s secretaries, and the fragility of my parents’ economic raft worried her terribly. “Then there were artists such as Sickert and people such as Lawrence of Arabia, who I thought was wonderful. Proud papa: Sir Winston Churchill gives his daughter away at her marriage to Christopher Soames (left); Sir Winston, with his daughter Mary (Lady Soames) and son-in-law Christopher (right), as he leaves their home at Hamsell Manor, Eridge Green, near Tunbridge Wells, in January 1964, a year before his death, Uncle Joe: To the outside world Stalin was known as a mass murderer but Mary Soames remembered him in her diary as 'small, dapper and rather twinkly', Lawrence of Arabia: Mary Soames popped downstairs before bedtime to find Lawrence with his 'amazing, piercing blue eyes' in the drawing room, Franklin Roosevelt, president of the United States from 1933-1945. To him, the only way to really defeat any effort by Hitler to invade England was by increasing fighter strength so the Luftwaffe could never achieve air superiority. He'd write all morning, paint all afternoon and gamble all evening, so she took to coming home again once she'd spent a few days there so as not to hurt their hostesses.". I think what really hurt him was the idea that suddenly he had no meaningful work to do. Mary was an attractive girl and love bloomed in that ‘very jolly atmosphere’.
Larson, author of the New York Times best sellers The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake, details Churchill’s boldness in standing alone against the Nazi menace by urging his countrymen to overcome hopelessness and fight back. I only had a bowler hat and always acted as the dogsbody to open gates and pick up her riding crop if she dropped it. He’s doing bayonet drills to the strains of martial music from the gramophone. Mary accompanied her father on several of his trips outside the country. But, instead of brushing me off, he bent his great mind to thinking where I should walk my dog.
“She was very upright, very Scottish, very religious,” said Lady Soames, “and it was she who gave me my faith.
His family was spread out throughout London. He was very companionable, unlike my father, who was very self-centred and lived life on his own terms. She knew she was going to have to be away a lot because of Father's involvement in politics.
If he was in the right mood, he'd pick a quarrel with a chair. “When she went away to school, I missed her terribly but, when she came home for holidays, it was wonderful. An Interview with Mary Soames “Father Always Came First, Second And Third” Finest Hour 116, Autumn 2002.
For eight short weeks, she was engaged to Eric, Lord Duncannon, son of the Earl and Countess of Bessborough. One lived one’s life by the sitting and rising of the House of Commons.
"It all happened in the rush of the war," she recalled. 17th Annual Photo Contest Finalists Announced.
As Churchill’s daughter, Mary Soames had the run of 10 Downing Street and helped arrange dinner with Stalin. The only thing she hated was being sent to a new unit. In speeches, he roused their patriotism, and in mingling with them, following a night of bombing, they heard words of revenge and saw tears of sympathy. She was with Christopher again when, in 1979, as governor of Rhodesia, he handed over that last great remnant of the Empire to an apparently benign Robert Mugabe.
But, instead of brushing me off, he bent his great mind to thinking where I should walk my dog.
I probably have 10,000 pages of material from documents. Christopher would grumble at times - 'Your mother would never have left me alone in Bedford like this', he'd say - but he didn't pressurise me as Papa did Mother. Mary Soames led an amazing life. We used to ride for hours on the sofa arms.
One lived one's life by the sitting and rising of the House of Commons.
She obviously had a way with her.”, There was, inevitably, speculation about who Clementine’s father really was, and a general belief that it was most unlikely to have been Blanche’s husband, Henry. He was not going to cower in a shelter during a raid. It took me out of the present. Any why now?
There would be great harouches where you’d be shouted at for not turning the lights off.
There was a very jolly atmosphere. We got on our knees for prayer-time every night; and she found me a very good children's service, not far from Chartwell, in a parish with a very magnetic priest. That would create, Hitler said, “, There were personal moments, weekends at Chequers and Ditchley House in Oxfordshire.
Still under military age, she worked as a billeting officer for the WVS in Aylesbury. Writing about Churchill, dwelling in that world, was really a lovely place for me. Frederick Edward Neuflize "Eric" Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough DL (29 March 1913 – 5 December 1993), styled Viscount Duncannon from 1920 to 1956, was a British diplomat, businessman, playwright, Conservative politician, and peer.
But I do think Nana made a great difference.
‘I don’t know why I turned out like this while others had such problems,’ she once said.
We had two teams and, when you were off duty, you were meant to be getting some sleep.
“She almost came out by proxy, and she would have felt it keenly, though she never mentioned it.
It was much easier when I was in the ranks.
Her mother played no part in her debut.”, So, although Clementine was much admired when she came out, she was both nervous and lacking in confidence after such a strange, unhappy childhood.
As a matter of fact, she did become a churchgoer in the last years of her life. Father, on the other hand, was frightfully noisy when he lost his temper. Clementine's insecure, fatherless childhood also helps to explain the fact that she suffered from both hysteria and deep depressions throughout her life. To me, she was a goddess figure, though she was always accessible.
In 1945, she was at Potsdam with him and helped to arrange his dinner with Stalin—whom she remembers as “small, dapper and rather twinkly”—and Harry Truman.
