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Arabella Spencer-Churchill (30 October 1949 – 20 December 2007) was an English charity founder, festival co-founder and fundraiser and a granddaughter of former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. In 1971, Churchill played a major role in the development of the Glastonbury Festival.
- Charity founder, festival co-founder, fundraiser
- Randolph Churchill, June Osborne
- 30 October 1949, London, England
Arabella Churchill. Retrato de Arabella Churchill por Mary Beale (c. 1660). Arabella Churchill (23 de febrero de 1648- Londres, 30 de mayo de 1730) fue amante del rey Jacobo II de Inglaterra y madre de cuatro de sus hijos (los cuales llevan por apellido FitzJames, hijos de James ).
- 23 de febrero de 1648
- Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Drake
- Británica
22 de dic. de 2007 · Arabella Spencer Churchill was born on October 31 1949, the daughter of Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s son, and his second wife June Osborne. As a child at her parents’ house at East Bergholt, she organised fêtes in the garden to raise money for charity.
- Childhood
- Eton
- Oxford
- Speaking Tour of The United States
- Early 1930s
- Early Political Career
- Military Service
- Loss of Parliamentary Seat
- Second Marriage
- 1950s
Randolph Churchill was born at his parents' house at Eccleston Square, London, on 28 May 1911.[b] His parents nicknamed him "the Chumbolly" before he was born.[c] His father Winston Churchill was already a leading Liberal Cabinet Minister, and Randolph was christened in the House of Commons crypt on 26 October 1911, with Foreign Secretary Sir Edwar...
Winston gave his son a choice of Eton College or Harrow School, and he chose the former. Randolph later wrote "I was lazy and unsuccessful both at work and at games … and was an unpopular boy". He was once said to have been given "six up" (i.e. a beating) by his house's Captain of Games (a senior boy) for being "bloody awful all round". Michael Foo...
Randolph went up to Christ Church, Oxford, in January 1929, partway through the academic year and not yet eighteen, after his father's friend Professor Lindemannhad advised that a place had fallen vacant. In May he spoke for his father at the May 1929 general election. Between August and October 1929 Randolph and his uncle accompanied his father (n...
Randolph dropped out of Oxford in October 1930 to conduct a lecture tour of the US. He was already in debt; his mother guessed correctly that he would never finish his degree.Contrary to his later claims, his father attempted to dissuade him at the time. Unlike his father, who had become a powerful orator through much practice, and whose speeches a...
In October 1931 Randolph began a lecture tour of the UK. He lost £600 by betting wrongly on the results of the general election; his father paid his debts on condition he gave up his chauffeur-driven Bentley, a more extravagant car than his father drove. In 1931 he shared Edward James's house in London with John Betjeman. By the early 1930s Randolp...
Randolph Churchill's political career (like that of his son) was not as successful as that of his father or grandfather Lord Randolph Churchill. In an attempt to assert his own political standing he announced in January 1935 that he was a candidate in the Wavertree by-election in Liverpool; on 6 February 1935, an Independent Conservative on a platf...
Early war, marriage and Parliament
In August 1938, Randolph Churchill joined his father's old regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, receiving a commission as a second lieutenant in the supplementary reserve, and was called up for active service on 24 August 1939.He was one of the oldest of the junior officers, and not popular with his peers. In order to win a bet, he walked the 106-mile round trip from their base in Hull to York and back in under 24 hours. He was followed by a car, both to witness the event and in case his bl...
North Africa
It was widely suspected, including by Randolph himself, that secret orders had been given that the 4th Hussars were not to be sent into action (they were, as soon as Randolph transferred out). Randolph transferred to No. 8 (Guards) Commando. In February 1941 they were sent out, a six-week journey via the Cape of Good Hope and the East Coast of Africa, avoiding the Central Mediterranean where the Italian navy and Axis air forces were strong. Randolph, who was still earning £1,500 per annum as...
Yugoslavia
Randolph had encountered Fitzroy Maclean in the Western Desert Campaign. Winston Churchill agreed to Randolph accepting Maclean's offer to join his military and diplomatic mission (Macmis) to Tito's Partisans in Yugoslavia, warning him not to get captured in case the Gestapo sent him Randolph's fingers one by one. He returned to England for training then in January or February 1944 he parachuted into Yugoslavia. Tom Mitford was also present in the group.He was later joined in Yugoslavia by Ev...
Randolph's attendance in the Commons was irregular and patchy, which may have contributed to his defeat in July 1945. He had assumed he would hold his seat in 1945, but did not (he never actually won a contested election to Parliament). Randolph had a blazing row with his father and Brendan Bracken at a dinner at Claridge's on 31 August.The argumen...
Randolph was divorced from Pamela in 1946. His sister writes that after the war he led a "rampaging existence" as "he always had lances to break, and hares to start". He was loyal and affectionate, but "would pick an argument with a chair". Winston declared that he had a "deep animal love" for Randolph but that "every time we meet we seem to have a...
Candidate for Plymouth and Korean War
Randolph stood unsuccessfully for the Parliamentary seat of Plymouth Devonport in February 1950.His opponent Michael Foot wrote that he talked as though Plymouth belonged to him, and issued "a brilliant cascade of abuse" in all directions, including his own party workers. Randolph reported on the Korean War from August 1950, six weeks after the initial North Korean invasion of the south. The American and South Korean forces were bottled into a perimeter around Pusan and Taegu. His father gave...
Early 1950s: Winston's peacetime premiership
In the days after the 1951 general election, while his father was forming a government, Randolph amused himself by ringing up Conservative MPs who hurried to the phone on being told that "Mr Churchill" wished to speak to them urgently, assuming that they were about to be offered a ministerial position. During the post-war era Anthony Eden remained the Prime Minister's designated successor, yet when Eden married Clarissa Churchill in 1952, Randolph could hardly contain his utter contempt for h...
Late 1950s
Randolph introduced his father to Aristotle Onassis, on whose yacht Christinahe was often to cruise, in January 1956. He set up a private company, "Country Bumpkins", to market his pamphlet "What I said about the Press" (in his speeches in 1953), which most newsagents refused to stock, and soon found himself involved in a libel case. He was carefully briefed on precise details both of facts and of the intricacies of the law. He was very quick-witted under cross-examination. His political oppo...
- 1938–1961
- Conservative
21 de dic. de 2007 · Fri 21 Dec 2007 18.57 EST. Arabella Churchill, charity worker, co-founder of the Glastonbury festival and granddaughter of Sir Winston, died of cancer early yesterday - the same day that her...
20 de dic. de 2021 · Arabella, second from right, in New York in the 1960s with Jackie Kennedy, John F Kennedy Junior, her father Randolph Churchill and his assistant Andrew Kerr, who was also instrumental in the...
22 de dic. de 2007 · She was 58. The cause was pancreatic cancer, her family said. Although born to privilege as the daughter of Sir Winston Churchill’s son Randolph, Ms. Spencer-Churchill rebelled early. “I...
