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Jeanette «Jennie» Jerome CI DStJ ( Brooklyn, 9 de enero de 1854-Londres, 29 de junio de 1921), más conocida como lady Randolph Churchill, fue una destacada socialite estadounidense afincada en el Reino Unido tras casarse en 1874 con lord Randolph Churchill.
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23 de abr. de 2024 · Jennie Jerome Churchill (born January 9, 1854, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died June 29, 1921, London, England) was an American-born society figure, remembered chiefly as the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain (1940–45, 1951–55).
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10 de abr. de 2017 · Jennie Jerome, born in Brooklyn of a mother who was one-quarter Iroquois Indian, was one of the few tattooed women in high society. The dark beauty’s tattooing was a snake coiled around her left wrist. She married Lord Randolph Churchill and for many years was a glamorous figure in English society.
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During the Gilded Age, marrying British aristocrats was seen as a way for American heiresses to raise their social status.
When Jennie Jerome and Lord Randolph Churchill announced their engagement in 1874, his parents were horrified. The couple had only known one another for three days, and Jerome—the tattooed daughter of a philandering financier and a social climber—was an American socialite, not a British noblewoman. Appalled, the Churchills tried to block the match…until they did the math.
Jerome’s family might have humble origins, but they were outrageously wealthy. Lord Randolph’s parents were not, and Jerome’s father was willing to pay a dowry that equaled the equivalent of over $4.3 million dollars today. The marriage went forward with the grudging approval of Lord Randolph’s parents.
They could have no way of knowing that Jerome, who became Lady Randolph Churchill when she married in 1874, would be the mother of a future prime minister, Winston—or that by allowing their aristocratic son to barter his title for much-needed wealth, they had helped spark a trend.
Between the late 19th century and World War II, a flood of “dollar princesses” flocked to England looking for love. In return for a coveted title, they offered their much-needed wealth to an aristocracy desperate for cash. And along the way, they helped change British royalty forever—including the lives of the modern-day heirs to Britain’s throne.
Jerome was just one of hundreds of heiresses thought to have injected the equivalent of a billion pounds into the British economy. The exchange was worth it in their eyes; they knew that marriages to people with titles like Lord, Viscount and Duke would improve their family’s fortunes back in the United States and solidify their position on the American social circuit.
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Jennie Jerome. Hija del financiero norteamericano Leonard Jerome y su esposa, Clarissa Hall. Luego de su primer matrimonio, pasó a la posteridad como Lady Randolph Churchill, madre del primer ministro británico Winston Churchill, uno de los más brillantes estadistas de todos los tiempos.
15 de abr. de 2019 · Endnotes. 1 Born Jennie Jerome in Brooklyn, 9 January 1854, she became known as Lady Randolph Churchill on marriage in 1874; then as Mrs. George Cornwallis-West on remarriage in 1900; and finally once again as Lady Randolph Churchill on the dissolution of her second marriage in 1914.
24 de jun. de 2022 · Nacida en Brooklyn en 1854, Jernny Jerome fue una destacada socialicé y una vividora toda su vida a la que le importó muy poco “el qué dirán”. Hija de un millonario, se dio la buena vida desde joven viajando por Europa y residiendo una larga temporada en París, donde permaneció con su familia incluso tras el estallido de la ...
