January 1, 1970

Their third child, Sarah, was born in the first month of the First World War, at Admiralty House (Churchill was, by this time, First Lord of the Admiralty, but they weren’t there for long; Churchill was demoted in 1915, following the disastrous Gallipoli campaign and the family decamped to Hoe Farm in Surrey, where Churchill licked his wounds.

The Churchills later moved in with Jack, Churchill’s brother and his wife Goonie and their children, in Cromwell Road, London, for the remainder of the war and, after a short time at Lullenden in West Sussex, they moved again, in 1920, to Sussex Square, north of Hyde Park in London.

Finally, in 1922, when Diana was thirteen, Sarah eight and Mary not yet born, Churchill found the family home that was to be the centre of their lives for the next forty years. During a visit to Westerham in Kent, Churchill fell in love with an Elizabethan manor house, old and unloved, nestling in rolling hills some twenty five miles south of London, and bought it (without consulting Clementine who was about to give birth to Mary). This was Chartwell.

For a list of all Churchill’s residences, see here.