Churchill Loved Her Only At a Distance. She Wrote a Play. It Cost Her a HUSBAND Jennie Jerome

Engaged in THREE Days. Her Son Loved Her From a Distance. She Died in DEBT: Jennie Jerome The museum cards tell a simple story. A rich girl from Brooklyn married an English lord, gave birth to Winston Churchill, and spent her life as a famous beauty in London. The letters tell a different one. In August 1873, at a ball on a guard ship off the Isle of Wight, nineteen-year-old Jennie Jerome met Lord Randolph Churchill. Three days later they were engaged. Her son grew up begging her, in letter after letter, to visit him at school, and decades later wrote that he loved her dearly, but at a distance. She married three times. Her second husband was sixteen days older than Winston, and a play she wrote brought the woman who took him from her. When she died in 1921, her debts were larger than everything she owned. It ended with a pair of new shoes. Chapters: 00:00 — The Ball at Cowes 02:09 — Act I — The Rise 06:50 — Act II — The Facade 11:18 — Act III — The Crack 15:44 — Act IV — The Reckoning 20:41 — 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... Jennie Churchill and Her Attempts to Be an Independent Woman, International Churchill Society — https://winstonchurchill.org/publicat... 110 Years On, Remembering Jennie and the Maine, International Churchill Society — https://winstonchurchill.org/publicat... Jennie Churchill, A Life in Politics, Churchill Archives Centre — https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/j... Lord Randolph Churchill, Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/biography/... #documentary #history #Churchill #GildedAge