![]() ![]() Through her family contacts and her extramarital romantic relationships, Lady Randolph greatly helped her husband's early career, as well as that of her son Winston. It was said that Queen Alexandra especially enjoyed her company, although Lady Randolph had been involved in an affair with her husband the king, which was well known to Alexandra. She was said to be intelligent, witty, and quick to laughter. Lady Randolph was well-respected and influential in the highest British social and political circles. I loved her dearly – but at a distance." After he became an adult, they became good friends and strong allies, to the point where Winston regarded her almost as a political mentor, more a big sister than a mother. ![]() He wrote about her in My Early Life: "She shone for me like the evening star. Winston worshipped his mother, writing her numerous letters during his time at school and begging her to visit him, which she rarely did. Īs was the custom of the day in her social class, Lady Randolph played a limited role in her sons' upbringing, relying largely upon nannies, especially Elizabeth Everest. ![]() Lady Randolph is believed to have had numerous lovers during her marriage, including the Prince of Wales, Milan I of Serbia, Prince Karl Kinsky, and Herbert von Bismarck. A recent biography has stated that he was born two months prematurely after Lady Randolph "had a fall." When asked about the circumstances of his birth, Winston Churchill replied: "Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it." Lady Randolph's sisters believed that the biological father of the second son, John (1880–1947) was Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth, although that was mostly discredited due to the boys' striking likeness to Randolph Churchill and to each other. According to his biographer William Manchester, Winston was most likely conceived before the marriage, rather than born prematurely. The Churchills had two sons: Winston (1874–1965), the future prime minister, was born less than eight months after the marriage. Lady Randolph with her two sons, John and Winston, 1889 She was a noted beauty an admirer, Lord d'Abernon, said that there was "more of the panther than of the woman in her look." Personal life It is believed that the Jeromes were temporarily staying at the Henry Street address, which was owned by Leonard's brother Addison, and that Jennie was born there during a snowstorm. However, on 9 January 1854, the Jeromes lived nearby at number 8 Amity Street (since renumbered as 197). gives her year of birth as 1850, not 1854. There is some disagreement regarding the time and place of her birth. Another sister, Camille (1855–1863) died when Jennie was nine. She was raised in Brooklyn, Paris, and New York City. Hall family lore insists that Jennie had Iroquois ancestry through her maternal grandmother however, there is no research or evidence to corroborate this. Jerome's father was of Huguenot extraction, his forebears having emigrated to America from the Isle of Wight in 1710. Jennie Jerome was born in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854, the second of four daughters (one died in childhood) of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clarissa (always called Clara ), daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner. The Jerome Mansion on Madison Avenue, New York City ( c. ![]()
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