Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer (1885-1977, née Hozier, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell)
Dates
- Existence: 1885 - 1977
Admin / Family structure
Wife of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:
Public and Political: General: Gifts: Golden Wedding and Birthday., 1958
Public and Political: General: Greetings: Golden wedding congratulations: General public., 1958
Includes greeting cards, letters and telegrams from members of the public to WSC and CSC congratulating them on their ggolden wedding. Also includes newspaper cuttings, poems, photographs (including a photograph of CSC with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), colour transparencies of Blenheim Palace, and copies of replies sent by WSC, CSC, Grace Hamblin and Doreen Pugh [Private Secretaries to WSC].
Public and Political: General: Greetings: Golden wedding congratulations: private and personal, patronage and Conservative Associations, etc., 1958
Public and Political: General: Greetings: Golden wedding: press arrangements., Aug 1958 - Nov 1958
Correspondents concerning requests from the press for interviews with and photographs of WSC and CSC include George Christ, Parliamentary Liaison Officer for the Conservative and Unionist Party.Also includes: press statements from WSC and CSC; commemorative issues of the Primrose League Gazette and the Kent Messenger; and notes and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC], Doreen Pugh, Jill Lynam and Grace Hamblin [Private Secretaries to WSC].
Speech notes for "Grace in Russia 1945" on accompanying CSC
This small collection of papers comprises Grace Hamblin's notes for speeches about her work for Sir Winston Churchill and his family. She recalls getting her position as secretary and what it was like to work for Churchill. Churchill Archives Centre also owns Grace Hamblin's OBE which is on permanent loan to the National Trust, Chartwell.
The Conference Diaries of Flight Sergeant G. Green
This collection consists of notebooks containing diaries of the Atlantic Meeting, Washington, Quebec, Cairo and Yalta conferences. Green tends to record events from his own day but when relevant these include encounters with Churchill and other key figures.
"The Daily Graphic: Mr Churchill's Wedding Day", 12 Sep 1908
Edition featuring the wedding of WSC and CSC. Includes: photos of the bridesmaids and of CSC; of Blenheim Palace, where the couple would begin their honeymoon; of WSC; and a fashion article illustrated with sketches about CSC's gowns.Printed.
The Papers of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell
The Papers of Katharine Broome
Scrapbook and later memoir from Mrs Broome's time with the Churchills.
The Papers of Lady Soames
The Papers of Sarah Churchill
Comprising correspondence, literary papers, photographs, press cuttings and film.
With some correspondence with Mary Soames after Sarah Churchill's death, about her literary papers and estate, 1983-4, 1988.
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
(Untitled), 13 Sep 1908
Letter from WSC (Blenheim Palace) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that "Clemmie" [Clementine Hozier, later CSC] is "vy happy and beautiful", thanks her for her support "at a critical period in my emotional development"; expresses relief that the [wedding] ceremony is over and that George [Cornwallis-West] had said that "he could wish me no better wife or happier days than he had found in you".
(Untitled), 20 Sep 1908
Letter from WSC ([Italy] on the notepaper of the Board of Trade) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] discussing the sale of the house at Bolton Street and saying that he and CSC are happy [on their honeymoon] and have "loitered and loved - a good & serious occupation for which the histories furnish respectable precedents".
(Untitled), 03 Apr 1945
Telegram from WSC to HM Ambassador Moscow [Soviet Union, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr] marked "Personal and Top Secret" passing on message to CSC stating that he was delighted to receive her letters from Cairo [Egypt]; that he has been very busy; and that because the telegrams are coded and decoded he does not lengthen them by expressions he puts in letters. Initialled. Carbon copy.
(Untitled), 03 Apr 1945
Telegram from WSC to HM Ambassador Moscow [Soviet Union, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr] marked "Personal and Top Secret" passing on message to CSC stating that he was delighted to receive her letters from Cairo [Egypt]; that he has been very busy; and that because the telegrams are coded and decoded he does not lengthen them by expressions he puts in letters. Initialled. Carbon copy.
(Untitled), [03] [Apr] [1945]
Telegram from WSC to HM Ambassador Moscow [Soviet Union, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr] marked "Personal and Top Secret" passing on message to CSC stating that he was delighted to receive her letters from Cairo [Egypt]; that he has been very busy; and that because the telegrams are coded and decoded he does not lengthen them by expressions he puts in letters. Initialled manuscript.
(Untitled), 29 Jan [1912]
Letter from "Clemmie" [CSC](Admiralty, Whitehall) to "B M" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she says that the children have bronchitis, expresses sympathy that she has influenza, comments "as for poor Winston [WSC] his sorrows & anxieties are known to you by the halfpenny Press" and says hat she hopes that she is enjoying her stay with Madame van Andre.
(Untitled), 20 Aug 1908
Letter from [1st Lord] Redesdale (Batsford Park, Moreton in Marsh [Gloucestershire]) to Mrs West [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he was impressed by WSC's "winning ways" and expresses pleasure at WSC's future marriage to Clementine [Hozier, later CSC].
(Untitled), 17 Aug 1908
Letter from Blanche [Lady] Airlie (Airlie Castle, Clythe [Scotland]) to Mrs West [Lady Randolph Churchill] congratulating her on WSC's engagement to Clementine [Hozier, later CSC] and commenting on her fondness for Clementine.
(Untitled), 04 Jan 1922
Letter from CSC, 2 Sussex Square, London, to WSC, on her health, and that of the children, asking him not to open a letter written to him on "Black Monday" [2 January].
(Untitled), 27 Jan 1922
Letter from CSC, Hotel Mont-Fleury, Cannes to WSC, on her holiday at Cannes.
(Untitled), [29 Jan 1922]
Letter from CSC, Hotel Mont-Fleury, Cannes, France, to WSC, on her holiday at Cannes, also criticising him for his speech attacking the behaviour of the Liberals "in peace as well as in War", commenting that the "Liberals (nearly all) behaved splendidly in the War, which is more credit to them than it is to the Tories who revel in slaughter".
(Untitled), 03 Feb 1922
Letter from CSC, Hotel Mont-Fleury, Cannes, France, to WSC, on success in Cannes tennis tournament, and on her decision to tell her mother and Venetia Montagu about her pregnancy, also on building work at 2 Sussex Square, and account of conversation with Lord Derby on Lord and Lady Curzon, describing Curzon as a "fat sneak".
(Untitled), 10 Feb 1922
Letter from CSC to WSC, on her holiday in the South of France, particularly on tennis tournament at Nice, also commenting on the Irish situation.