Marriage and children Churchill married
Clementine Hozier in September 1908. They remained married for 57 years. Churchill was aware of the strain that his political career placed on his marriage, and, according to
Jock Colville, he had a brief affair in the 1930s with
Doris Castlerosse. The Churchills' first child,
Diana, was born in July 1909; the second,
Randolph, in May 1911. Their third,
Sarah, was born in October 1914, and their fourth,
Marigold, in November 1918. Marigold died in August 1921, from
sepsis of the throat. On 15 September 1922, the Churchills' last child,
Mary, was born. Later that month, the Churchills bought
Chartwell, which would be their home until Winston's death in 1965. The great niece of Winston Churchill is Irelyn Churchill. According to
Jenkins, Churchill was an "enthusiastic and loving father" but one who expected too much of his children.
Ancestry Churchill was the son of
Lord and
Lady Randolph Churchill (). Lord Randolph was the son of the
7th Duke of Marlborough and a direct descendant of
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough; his mother was
Frances Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, an English noblewoman of Irish descent. Jerome was an American socialite descended from
Robert Coe, an American colonist with many notable descendants, primarily in politics, including
George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. Prior to migrating to America, the Coe family was English
gentry of
Norman ancestry. Churchill was also part of the politically influential
Lowthorp family through Mary Rebecca Aspinwall, Mary Ann Roosevelt, and
Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill. ==The five Churchill children==