Back in August 2017, a mansion called "The Chartwell Estate" hit the market for a cool $350 million. Located in Bel-Air, you MIGHT recognize Chartw...| Celebrity Net Worth
“What was Churchill’s Philosophy of Life and Living?” was first published by the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For the original article with endnotes, click here. To subscribe to free weekly articles from Hillsdale-Churchill, click here and scroll to bottom. Enter your email in the box “Stay in touch with us.” No advertising: Your identity remains a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Q: On life and living If I want to understand Sir Winston Churchill’s philosop...| Richard M. Langworth
“Clementine from the first had liked and respected this dour man, but she found this remark too much to bear and, rounding on him, she rebuked him soundly, in her perfect, rather formal French.... The General was much upset, and apologised profusely.... Later on in the war he was to give her a beautiful Lalique cock—the emblem of France—which she greatly treasured.” —Mary Soames The post Chartwell’s Lalique Cockerel: A Rare Gift of Gaullist Penance appeared first on The Churchill ...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
“The conversation turned to the French Fleet, and Clementine said she hoped that its ships and crews would carry on the fight with us. De Gaulle curtly replied that what would really give the French Fleet satisfaction would be to turn their guns ‘On you!’ (meaning the British). Winston tried to mediate but Clementine interrupted him, and said in French: ‘No, Winston, it is because there are certain things that a woman can say to a man which a man cannot say, and I am saying them to yo...| Richard M. Langworth
At Christmas 1932, Churchill received as a present “a huge bottle of brandy, and decided to paint it, accompanied by lesser bottles," Johnnie Churchill remembered. "He sent us children scurrying around Chartwell to find them: 'Fetch me associate and fraternal bottles to form a bodyguard to this majestic container.'"| Richard M. Langworth
