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Mary Soames

English author (1922–2014)

"Mary Churchill" redirects here. For the duchess, see Mary Montagu, Duchess of Montagu (1689–1751).

Mary Soames, Baroness Soames (née Spencer Churchill; 15 September 1922 – 31 May 2014) was an English author. The youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine,^[1] she worked for public organisations including the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service from 1939 to 1941, and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941. She was the wife of Conservative politician Christopher Soames.

Biography

Mary Spencer Churchill was born in London, in the same week as her father, Winston Churchill, purchased Chartwell, a country house in Kent; she was brought up there, attending local schools.^[2] She worked for the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service from 1939 to 1941, and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941^[2] with which she served in London, Belgium and Germany in mixed anti-aircraft batteries, rising to the rank of Junior C

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Emma Soames

British editor (born 1949)

Emma Soames (born 9 September 1949) is a British editor. She was the one-time girlfriend of Martin Amis. She is a granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill.

Family life

Her father was Lord Christopher Soames son of Harold Soames, whose sister was Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide.

Her mother was Mary nee Churchill, the daughter of Sir Winston Churchill.

She is a sister of Lord Nicholas Soames who was a Conservative Minister of Defence under Sir John Major.

Education

Soames was educated at three independent schools: at Laverock School in Oxted in Surrey, followed by Hamilton House School in Kent (both in South East England), followed by Queen's College (from 1965–66) in Harley Street in Central London. She then studied in Paris at the Sorbonne and at Sciences Po.

Life and career

Editor of Literary Review, Tatler, and ES Magazine, Soames was a long-serving editor of the Telegraph magazine, then editor of Saga Magazine.

In 2016 she appeared on a BBC Four show on the subject of Winston Chur

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February 14, 2009

“Father Always Came First, Second And Third”

Finest Hour 116, Autumn 2002

As Churchill’s daughter, Mary Soames had the run of 10 Downing Street and helped arrange dinner with Stalin. She talks to Graham Turner about eighty rich and varied years.

Graham Turner is a journalist whom we knew years ago when he covered the motor industry and wrote a penetrating, oft-quoted book, The Leyland Papers. He has since moved to weightier subjects for The Daily Telegraph, by whose kind permission this article is reprinted.

“I don’t think I was necessarily intended,” said Mary Soames, Winston and Clementine Churchill’s youngest daughter, “but I suppose I was the child of consolation. My parents were shattered when their third daughter, Marigold—who was only two and a half years old—died in 1921. It’s clear from letters my father wrote to my mother that, when I arrived the following year, he was delighted that the nursery had started again.”