Subjects include: an argument between Arthur Balfour and F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] over Smith being made a Privy Counsellor; Clementine's pregnancy [with Randolph Churchill]; difficulties in the marriage of Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill [earlier Jennie Jerome] and George Cornwallis-West; a row in the House of Commons between Churchill and 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour]; a political meeting in Holyhead [Wales] with speeches by John Redmond, Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party and Ellis Ellis-Griffith on Welsh disestablishment and Home Rule; the progress of Randolph Churchill and Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys]; Lady Randolph's work on a Shakespearean ball [held in aid of the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre] and her attempts to find a seat at the Coronation [of King George V]; the relationship between Diana and Randolph; Churchill's talks with King Manuel II of Portugal; a stay at Seaford [Sussex] with the children and holidays in Bavaria [Germany] and southern Spain [1914]; Clementine's worries that Churchill might keep flying while she was away in Spain and his concerns about money.