In the Western political arena, there are very few real "cold disciples", and even if most officials appear to be "born poor" on the surface, it is not difficult to find traces of prominent history in recent generations.
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is such a presence. Although he was only a hairy boy when he first entered British politics and did not seem to have a strong family background, he actually came from an aristocratic family, and his father had served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Churchill's mother was the daughter of a millionaire in the United States.
It seems that Churchill's life should have been a "simple model" from the beginning, and everything had been arranged, but this was not the case. His life is not only not smooth sailing, but even quite bumpy, and when he was a teenager, he lost his first love because of his family situation, which also had a great impact on his emotional outlook and future life.
The fall of the family in his youth directly led to Churchill losing his first love
Don't look at Churchill's father as an English Lord, and his mother from a rich family, but he has not been happy since childhood. The private life of the British upper nobility was generally chaotic, and Churchill's parents could not escape this exception.
Many people described the marriage of Churchill's parents as a "marriage between a fallen aristocracy and an upstart", and judging from the reality of the situation at the time, this statement did have some truth. It is difficult to verify whether the two had real feelings when they first married, but it is almost certain that there was not much love between the two after marriage.
One of the most important reasons is that Churchill's parents had their own lovers outside the home, and they didn't care much about Churchill. Churchill's mother, in particular, had a considerable number of lovers and did not devote much energy to her own family in the legal sense and Churchill's son.
Compared with his mother's obsession with extramarital affairs, Churchill's father also had lovers, but he paid more attention to his own political career.
Churchill's father once founded the Primrose Society, an organization that primarily campaigned for the Conservative Party's votes in general elections. In 1891, the organization had a million members, and twenty years later it exceeded two million.
However, Churchill's father did not have much political achievements, although he was once the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, but he was forced to step down after only 5 months, and he never returned to the stage of British politics.
Churchill, who grew up in such a family environment, has an extremely grotesque personality and the worst grades. In order to find a way out for this indisputable son, his father sent Churchill to the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst, one of the world's four major military schools.
After graduating from the military academy, Churchill naturally joined the army and went to the Indian colonies with the army, and also worked as a reporter for the army. It was during his time in the army that Churchill met his first love: Pamela, the daughter of a high-ranking british colonial official.
Pamela was a socialite in Churchill's military service, with many suitors. Many people think that Churchill and Pamela fell in love during his military service, but some people believe that it was just Churchill's unrequited love affair, for the simple reason that Pamela and the son of the Governor of India became engaged during Churchill's frantic love letters to Pamela after his return home.
But whether Or not Pamela and Churchill actually interacted, the outside world speculated that the reason why the two could not get together was the same: Churchill was already in the middle of the family, with only 2,000 pounds in his hands, and was a "poor boy" with no money and no power, and Pamela's father did not look at such a future son-in-law.
The reason for all this was that Churchill's father died of depression shortly after his failure in politics, and his mother soon remarried a man younger than him, leaving him only a fortune of £2,000.
He used the future prime minister's beloved daughter to ascend to high office but was hesitant to make a commitment to her
The failure of his first love made Churchill understand the importance of money and power, and also pushed him to embark on a path of power struggle. After returning to England, Churchill began to enter politics, and before that, a "prison break" that happened to him made him famous and gave him the capital to enter the political arena.
In 1899, Churchill was arrested by locals during an interview in South Africa. Unwilling to be controlled by others, Churchill, who had a well-behaved personality from an early age, boldly planned and implemented a prison escape that only he knew about and participated in, and it was successful. After leaving prison, Churchill fled to the British consulate with the help of a British expatriate.
At that time, South Africa was in the period of the Anglo-Boer War, and the major powers were competing for territory and resources in South Africa's land, and the situation was very chaotic. Churchill's ability to escape from prison alone and reach the local consulate safely under such circumstances surprised and admired many British.
Soon after entering politics, Churchill became a parliamentarian on behalf of the Conservative Party and officially began his political career. Shortly thereafter, however, Churchill clashed with some members of the Conservative Party and was kicked out of the party. Churchill, forced to join the opposition.
But because of the Conservative Party's rule, Churchill's path to politics was not smooth. It was not until after the fall of the Conservative Party that Churchill had the opportunity to reappear in the public eye. It was also at this time that he met a woman who had changed his life, Violet.
Violet herself was no more than an aristocratic lady with little ability in politics, but her father was the almost well-known next Prime Minister, Asquis. Moreover, Asquith loved his daughter very much, almost everything, so many people at that time were trying their best to seduce Violet.
For Churchill, Violet was not a simple woman, but a ladder for his change of destiny. Long before meeting Violet for the first time, Churchill spent a great deal of effort inquiring about and studying Violet's personality traits.
In the end, Churchill believes that he should do the opposite, deliberately ignoring and snubbing Violet, so as to attract her attention and make his next plan. At that time, Churchill was already in his prime, and Violet was just a 21-year-old girl who could not see through Churchill, a politician who was much older than himself.
For an aristocratic lady who was not familiar with the world, the middle-aged man who talked was very attractive, and coupled with Churchill's good appearance at that time, it was easy to attract the attention of a little girl like Violet.
It wasn't long before Violet was impressed by Churchill's tricks and thought he could go further with Churchill. Her father, after inspecting Churchill, also thought that this choice was good, so Asquis adopted a silent attitude towards the interaction between the two.
During the ambiguity with the future Prime Minister's beloved daughter, she fell into a long-term love triangle
When Asquith succeeded him as prime minister, at the behest of Violet, he soon began to reuse Churchill, making the man Britain's secretary of state for business, known as "the youngest cabinet member of the world's first power" at the time.
After helping her beloved Prince Charming succeed in ascending to the throne, Violet began to plan for the wedding between herself and Churchill with great joy, thinking that Churchill would propose to her, but waited until the news of Churchill's engagement.
Upon learning of this, Asquith is worried that Violet will not be able to think of it, but in the face of his father's concern, Violet says that he and Churchill are only best friends and will be "happy about winston's choice (Churchill's name, Churchill is his last name)."
But in fact, Violet's calm was only a superficial disguise, and when she saw Churchill again, she could no longer control her heart and cried with him. It was only then that Churchill explained that he had only become a confidant to Violet, and that there had never been love between them.
Later, Violet also committed suicide for Churchill, but there are many opinions about her suicidal behavior.
Many people think that Violet most likely wants to attract Churchill's attention again in this way, because in her heart, Churchill is only seduced by another woman, not really not loving herself. But how could Churchill, who had only used Violet for political status, have any indication of this?
The woman whom Violet had been haunting, called Clementine, came from a fallen nobleman, and the two had been in a relationship during Churchill and Violet's ambiguity.
Perhaps it was the similarity of life that made Churchill have a feeling of pity for her, or perhaps clementine and his first love's resemblance made Churchill flash, in short, Churchill gave up the great political help of Violet and chose Clementine instead.
But there are also some who believe that Churchill's choice was also taken into account by political interests. Although the two women were of similar age, Violet had been protected too well by her family since childhood, and was a flower in a greenhouse, unable to fight alongside Churchill. Clementine is completely different.
Born into a declining aristocrat, she came into contact with human affection earlier than Violet, and was more transparent and handy in interpersonal communication. If Churchill was content to make a living under Asquith, then Violet was indeed the best option, but if he had the idea of moving up, he would have to choose a lady who could better help him with his relationships.
All in all, Churchill preferred Clementine to Clementine as Churchill loved himself and considered only his own interests. Otherwise he wouldn't have seduced a woman he wouldn't have married, or he would have taken the initiative to get to know Clementine during his affair with Violet. From this point of view, Churchill in middle age was a scumbag without compromise.
After marriage, he did not change his absurd private life, but returned to the family with his wife in his later years
In 1908, Churchill and Clementine, who had already become The Minister of Commerce, held a grand wedding, and even invited the King of England to be present to congratulate the couple.
Before marriage, Churchill's women were not only Violet and Clementine, but the others were "just playing" and there was no possibility of marriage. Just when everyone thought that Churchill would relent after marriage and guard the wife who had given up his great help, Churchill once again surprised everyone.
After marrying Clementine, Churchill did not hide his playboy nature, and frequently cheated on him. Among Churchill's various peach blossoms, the ones that make his wife most unbearable are mainly two people: Churchill's first love girlfriend Pamela and the social flower Reese.
Pamela can be said to be the eternal "white moonlight" in Churchill's heart, and after Pamela's marriage, the two have maintained a friendship relationship. Even in Churchill's later years, he wrote letters to Pamela, and in the letters he did not care about some major national events, and communicated with Pamela in a very ordinary and relaxed tone.
No matter who it is, it should not be able to bear that there is such a "red-faced confidant" around her husband, right?
As for the social flower Reese, mainly because she is more famous, her influence is too large, and it poses a great threat to Clementine's position in the main palace. However, in contrast, Clementine is most worried about Pamela.
It was tiring to keep such a playboy, and after some time Clementine left England for america because of a quarrel with Churchill. There, she lived with a handsome bodyguard for about two years, in retaliation for Churchill's derailments.
Just when everyone thought that the two were about to be separated, the relationship between Churchill and Clementine suddenly improved. After Churchill was elected Secretary of the Navy, Clementine realized that she needed to return home to help her husband fight for the position of Prime Minister, so she had to give up this extramarital affair in the United States.
After the outbreak of World War II, Clementine actively participated in charity work, invested a lot of effort in social fundraising, and raised a lot of materials and money for the army, which gave the British army, which was tight on the front line at that time, a chance to breathe. After this incident, the British people were very grateful to Clementine and Churchill.
Because of these contributions, Clementine even received the honor of knighthood from the Queen herself. Perhaps it was Clementine's contributions that made Churchill feel guilty about her, or perhaps churchill no longer had a wandering mind in his old age, and Churchill in his later years stayed by Clementine's side, and there was no news of bees and butterflies.
The emotional wounds he suffered in his youth made Churchill, an originally grotesque man, indulge in sound and color dogs and horses, and only care about his future. However, in his old age, he chose to return to his family and spend the rest of his life guarding his wife, which can also be regarded as "the prodigal son does not change his gold".