The world-famous British Prime Minister Churchill during World War II had a younger brother named Jack, who was very different from his personality, and in the eyes of future generations, he was a very serious and responsible good man.
While Churchill was on the battlefield, he was silently managing the family's assets.
When he has the opportunity to go to war, he will definitely sign up!
Wearing hats were the Churchill brothers
But later generations ruined Jack's reputation, saying that his father had someone else, and that he was a cowardly person to protect.
Sources range from Churchill's rivals, as well as contemptuous exaggerations by his brother Churchill and his mother Jenny.
Jenny and her two sons, Churchill, were closer to her
After all, compared to the personal achievements of his brother and mother, Jack is really a very ordinary person.
Even Churchill himself would deliberately imply that his parents ignored him and exaggerated his reputation by belittling his brother's role in the family.
On the other hand, Jack's second son, Peregrin, resented the world and the elders for belittling his father.
Having been with his father since childhood, Peregrin knows how pragmatic and kind his father is.
Therefore, he has always wanted to save the image of his father.
So, in his later years, he found a historian named Celia Lee to collaborate on a memoir of the Churchill family featuring Jack.
("Churchill" is their family name and belongs to the "Spencer family"))
In order to "avenge his father", Peregrin generously took out thousands of secret documents hidden in the house to give Celia information.
The book is a relatively complete declassification of the Churchill family
But unexpectedly, after Celia published this book called "The Churchills: A Family Portrait", the image of Peregrin's father Jack was not salvaged, but the reputation of Grandma Jenny was ruined!
Because there's so much of her intimate writing to King Edward VII!
Not only did it confirm the fact that Jenny was Edward VII's mistress from the official level, but it also exposed the details of the intimate relationship between the two of them!
After reading Jenny's deeds, we have to admit that Churchill's mother, who can cultivate such an excellent son, is indeed superior!
Jenny, one of the famous dollar princesses
Jenny, people like to call Churchill's mother.
Summing up her life, the phrase "the king's mistress, the hero's mother" points out the essence.
Jenny is a very beautiful woman.
Born in the United States, his father was a stockbroker and his family was well off.
She was later introduced to an English aristocrat named Randolph, in addition to the social class is not comparable to the other party, Jenny is a New York white rich beauty, or very confident.
Plus Jenny already has the capital of self-confidence: a black shiny hair, charming blue eyes, and a peach-colored creamy skin. Fluent in French, fluent in German, and an excellent classical pianist.
Looking closely at the background of the man, Randolph, in addition to attending Eton College and graduating from Oxford University law, he is only the youngest son of the Duke of Marlborough, and not being the eldest son means that the future is uncertain.
Fortunately, he had a high level of consciousness and entered politics in time, which was a good job!
The two fell in love at first sight, and Randolph soon made a request to his parents for marriage.
Thus, the marriage process unique to that era came!
Jenny and Randolph were married within three days of meeting
In 1874, jenny, then 20 years old, married Lord Randolph Churchill, a nobleman in London.
But this marriage is very realistic, and it was completely bargained.
At first, Jenny's wealthy father, Leonard, was only willing to give £48,000, which was a dowry for his daughter.
But the man's side felt that it was not cost-effective, let him add a little more, saying that you want to give more than 2000?
Leonard thought for a moment and hesitated for a long time before agreeing—though he was singing all night in America, with a whole bunch of mistresses, not like the £2,000 he was.
Although an agreement was finally reached to marry the family, the London side waited for the day after the 50,000 pounds arrived before it began to prepare for the marriage.
To put it bluntly, if this money had not entered the money bag, it would have been impossible to get married!
After marriage, Jenny and Randolph each split the money in half. Randolph began her own career as a parliamentarian, while Jenny embarked on a dreamy social life.
The two had two sons, Churchill being their eldest son.
Unlike his younger brother Jack, Churchill was a premature baby.
After successfully entering British high society by marriage, Jenny's social ambitions began.
Churchill was born
At that time, the most perfect way for a girl like Jenny to live was to marry an English nobleman. Having money requires status, marrying titled aristocrats, and entering high social circles were the things that many wealthy American girls were doing at the time.
And a married woman like Jenny who knows how to flirt with the opposite sex is exactly what the male aristocrats sought after at that time.
The private life of the real nobles is such a chaotic situation, and the spirit of the nobility is more embodied on the battlefield.
In the 9th year of giving birth to his youngest son, Jack, Randolph returned home to find that his wife was staying with Prince Edward, the prince at the time.
At the time, prince Edward was two years away from ascending the throne.
An angry Randolph wants to throw the fat-forward king out of the house, but the other party is calm and unmoving, can you help me?
It was blatantly possessing each other's wives, which was what Prince Edward, then crown prince-to-be and top nobleman, would have done.
Anyone who knew the king a little would know how messy his private life really was.
Edward VII was an advocate of free love, provided the other person was married and single women were not popular with him.
He would throw intimate parties where he was staying, and would arrange for them to live in the next room.
At that time, Jenny was a noble lady he liked very much. Jenny also gave him a nickname called "Tum-Tum".
The two maintained a close friendship for more than two years, appearing together in public, and in private Jenny would wear loose Japanese robes for the king.
At that time, Jenny was the most favored and had a lot of benefits from the king.
But then Alice Keppel, Camilla's ancestor, kicked Jenny away from the king's bedside as soon as she ascended to the throne!
Alice Kepper, camilla's ancestor
Jenny, who had lost the king's protection, was not discouraged. The number of her lovers has been increasing.
It is rumored that the number of lovers in her life is around 200.
However, according to Celia's research, this number is only a dozen.
On the side of the husband, Randolph, because he was accustomed to his wife's crazy behavior, and the nobles around him played in this way, plus he was not in good health.
Therefore, he turned a blind eye.
However, when Jenny was 40 years old, Randolph still couldn't stand it and died of illness.
Edward VII was the eldest son of Queen Victoria
Her former lover, Edward VII, was the first to write to her to send her condolences.
In fact, it is not surprising that Edward VII would care about Randolph, because it is always rumored that Randolph was infected with syphilis.
Edward VII was also worried about himself, so he asked at both ends of the three days, and went to ask Randolph's doctor.
Fortunately, the doctor said that he had not treated Randolph with mercury and potassium iodide, so the king was relieved.
It was also because Edward VII left so much evidence that posterity could not let future generations know, so that a large number of his personal letters were ordered to be burned after his death.
So the historian Celia saw all the letters that Jenny had written to the king, and could not find the reply.
Jenny, a widow at the age of 40, has no intention of living alone.
In 1900, the fifth year after Randolph's death, she married a Scottish Guard captain named George at St. Paul's Church at Knightsbridge.
George is only 16 days older than Churchill!
This mother-son love marriage, which lasted for 14 years, did not have much intersection.
Because Jenny at that stage already knew too well what she wanted.
She struggled to move closer to independent women while continuing her profligacy.
After getting married, George not only couldn't help Jenny, but his own money was getting less and less, and even he couldn't take care of himself in the future!
Jenny didn't care about him, either raising money to care for the wounded, or writing memoirs and running magazines to earn money to buy for herself.
So she didn't have any money in the future.
In order to continue to live comfortably, Jenny sold a house and went straight to the Ritz Hotel.
George was no longer working and needed hospitalization. However, Jenny did not take care of him and continued to write her own script.
Later, the two divorced, and George turned around and married Mrs. Campbell, the heroine whom Jenny had been working with.
It is also in the division of property in this divorce case that Jack, the youngest son who already has a lot of experience in handling property, finally has the opportunity to see the full content of his father's will that year.
Four-year-old Jack and older brother Churchill
It turned out that the father, in order to protect him and his brother Churchill, according to the requirements of the inheritance distribution, if Jenny remarried, he would give each son 600 pounds a year!
But Jenny hid the terms and the money.
Jack angrily wrote to his mother Jenny: "I found that Papa's will is not as sloppy as you say, so unconsidered for our brothers!" ”
This tone does not seem to be very serious!
In fact, Jenny was not only excessive, she also took some of the money that originally belonged to the Churchill brothers privately!
Churchill and mother Jenny
But what can Jack do?
Hate your own mother?
But he wasn't that kind of person.
As she grew older, her mother, Jenny, always liked her brother Churchill more, because her brother was more like a man who could do great things.
Jenny loves that ambition. She helped her first husband in his career as a young man and began helping his eldest son in middle age.
Jenny was more of a smart big sister to adult Churchill than a mother.
The two exchanged letters, and Jenny liked to refer to Churchill at the beginning of the letter by "My Brilliant Winston" (my clever beloved son Winston).
But for the younger son Jack, it is more like a scolding child. Jack's first job was to be a stockbroker at Jenny's request.
Although he also went to work, his mind was more about being a soldier on the battlefield.
He was quite similar to his brother Churchill.
Churchill and his younger brother Jack, their respective sons
Although Jack had always been aware of his mother's eccentricity, the testament did not really affect his relationship with Jenny.
But Jenny also had times when she drove her little son crazy.
In 1918, when Jack was fighting The Franco-Germans as an officer in the Anzac Army, he heard from someone else that Jenny was about to marry a civil servant named Montagu Poche.
Montagu was a small British clerk in Nigeria at the time, and he was 3 years younger than Churchill!
Thinking of his mother's past series of emotional operations, a very dissatisfied Jack wrote a letter to his mother Jenny, rarely angry at his mother: "Whenever I go to war, you go to marry!" ”
(In other words, Churchill's family is so interesting to write letters, no wonder the literary achievement is high)
At the end, Jack still turned his pen sharply, "I extend my most sincere love and blessings to you, and pray that everything will be fine!" ”
Sure enough, it is the little son, and there should be a lot of intimateness!