Prime minister churchill biography
Prime minister churchill biography
Winston churchill biography...
Early Life
Winston Churchill came from a long line of English aristocrat-politicians. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was descended from the First Duke of Marlborough and was himself a well-known figure in Tory politics in the s and s.
His mother, born Jennie Jerome, was an American heiress whose father was a stock speculator and part-owner of The New York Times.
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(Rich American girls like Jerome who married European noblemen were known as “dollar princesses.”)
Did you know? Sir Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in for his six-volume history of World War II.
Churchill was born at the family’s estate near Oxford on November 30, He was educated at the Harrow prep school, where he performed so poorly that he did not even bother to apply to Oxford or Cambridge.
Instead, in young Winston Churchill headed off to military school at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Battles and Books
After he left Sandhurst, Churchill traveled all around the British E