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'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb’ Sunday Telegraph
1939, and seventeen-year-old Mary found herself in an extraordinary position at an extraordinary time: the daughter of prime minister-in-waiting Winston Churchill, witnessing the outbreak of the Second World War. She was uniquely placed to observe this historic moment, and her diaries - most of which have never been published - provide a front-row view.
Having inherited Churchill's energy and determination, Mary joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941 and served in one of the new "mixed" anti-aircraft batteries - a marked change from her privileged lifestyle to date.
Excitement of a different sort came from travelling abroad as her father's ADC - to blitzed cities, to Quebec and to Washington, and in July 1945 accompanying Winston to Potsdam for the summit with Truman and Stalin.
Her diaries, which give us an intimate portrait of her life alongside Churchill, have been edited by her daughter, the writer and broadcaster Emma Soames, who
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Emma Soames
British editor (born 1949)
Emma Soames (born 9 September 1949) is a British editor. She was the one-time girlfriend of Martin Amis. She is a granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill.
Family life
Her father was Lord Christopher Soames son of Harold Soames, whose sister was Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide.
Her mother was Mary nee Churchill, the daughter of Sir Winston Churchill.
She is a sister of Lord Nicholas Soames who was a Conservative Minister of Defence under Sir John Major.
Education
Soames was educated at three independent schools: at Laverock School in Oxted in Surrey, followed by Hamilton House School in Kent (both in South East England), followed by Queen's College (from 1965–66) in Harley Street in Central London. She then studied in Paris at the Sorbonne and at Sciences Po.
Life and career
Editor of Literary Review, Tatler, and ES Magazine, Soames was a long-serving editor of the Telegraph magazine, then editor of Saga Magazine.
In 2016 she appeared on a BBC Four show on the subject of Winston Chur
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The Hon. Emma Soames (born 9 September 1949) is a British editor. She is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill via her mother, Mary, Baroness Soames, and the one-time girlfriend of Martin Amis. Her brother is Nicholas Soames, Baron Soames of Fletching who was a Conservative minister of defence under Sir John Major.
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