The Churchills

A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill

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  • There
  • never
  • was
  • a
  • Churchill
  • from
  • John
  • of
  • Marlborough
  • down
  • who
  • had
  • either
  • morals
  • or
  • principles',
  • so
  • said
  • Gladstone.
  • From
  • the
  • First
  • Duke
  • of
  • Marlborough
  • -
  • soldier
  • of
  • genius,
  • restless
  • empire-builder
  • and
  • cuckolder
  • of
  • Charles
  • II
  • -
  • onwards,
  • the
  • Churchills
  • have
  • been
  • politicians,
  • gamblers
  • and
  • profligates,
  • heroes
  • and
  • womanisers.The
  • Churchills
  • is
  • a
  • richly
  • layered
  • portrait
  • of
  • an
  • extraordinary
  • set
  • of
  • men
  • and
  • women
  • -
  • grandly
  • ambitious,
  • regularly
  • impecunious,
  • impulsive,
  • arrogant
  • and
  • brave.
  • And
  • towering
  • above
  • the
  • Churchill
  • clan
  • is
  • the
  • figure
  • of
  • Winston
  • -
  • his
  • failures
  • and
  • his
  • triumphs
  • shown
  • in
  • a
  • new
  • and
  • revealing
  • context
  • -
  • ultimately
  • our
  • 'greatest Briton'.
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