Tower bedroom overlooking Italian gardens and south lawn.
he is descended from New England blacksmiths and an
Iroquois maiden.
Winston Churchill was born the son of a Brooklynite, of
an American womb. He would give enormous credit for
his development as a personality to his mother, not to his
father. He would model his oratorical bearing on Bourke
Cockran, an Irish-American politician, himself distantly
connected through marriage to the Marlboroughs. He
would convalesce with his American step grandmother,
Duchess Lily (Hammersly). And he would bond with his
first cousin���s wife, Duchess Consuelo. These remarkable
American personalities, combined with the often epic
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