Churchill Called Her The Evening Star. He Wrote 12 Letters For Every One BACK: Jennie Jerome

Churchill Called Her The Evening Star. He Wrote 12 Letters For Every One BACK: Jennie Jerome The official story is a love story. A dark-eyed girl from Brooklyn dances one night on a warship off the Isle of Wight, says yes to the son of a duke three days later, and gives Britain the man who would lead it through its darkest war. Her son called her the Evening Star. But the paperwork tells a different story. Her father fought the Duke of Marlborough for a clause that gave her a thousand pounds a year of her own. Between 1885 and 1892 Winston wrote home seventy-six times and got six letters back. By 1898 she needed seventeen thousand pounds, and her sons guaranteed the interest. A play she wrote brought into her house the woman who took her second husband. And in 1921 a pair of new Italian shoes ended it all on a staircase in Somerset. Remember eight words from a dead man's will. Chapters: 00:00 — The Evening Star 02:40 — ACT I — THE RISE 06:47 — ACT II — THE FACADE 10:37 — ACT III — THE CRACK 16:31 — ACT IV — THE RECKONING 21:01 — ACT V — THE AFTERMATH Source Material Visual material used in this production is obtained from publicly accessible archives, including Wikimedia Commons, Europeana and Royal Museums Greenwich. Copyright & Fair Use Notice This channel incorporates copyrighted material under the principles of Fair Use as recognized by U.S. law. Under Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act, certain uses of copyrighted works such as for analysis, commentary, educational purposes, research, and reporting are permitted without prior authorization from the copyright holder. Sources Lady Randolph Churchill, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Ra... Lord Randolph Churchill's Legacy: Shares not Sacks of Gold, International Churchill Society — https://winstonchurchill.org/publicat... Anne Sebba, Jennie Churchill and her attempts to be an Independent Woman — https://annesebba.com/journalism/jenn... Bringing up Winnie, New Statesman, on Darling Winston, ed. David Lough — https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/... In Search of Lord Randolph Churchill's Purported Syphilis, Hillsdale College — https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.ed... #documentary #history #Churchill #GildedAge