Daddy’s girl JANE RIDLEY Mary Churchill’s War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter
Sep 22, 2021
3 minutes
By Emma Soames
Two Roads £20
Mary Churchill (later Soames) was just 17 when the Second World War broke out.
She began to keep what she described as a ‘diary of an ordinary person’s life in wartime’. In fact, she wasn’t an ordinary person at all. She was Winston Churchill’s daughter, and her account of Churchill family life is what makes this diary historically significant.
The war uprooted Mary from her life as a
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