January 1, 1970

Introduced by Richard M. Langworth

Famed for her beauty and the ‘durable fire’ of her marriage to Alfred Duff Cooper, Lady Diana Cooper was early admitted to a warm friendship with Winston and Clementine Churchill, whom she recalls with a penetrating mind and capable pen. This obscure tribute to the Churchill marriage, published shortly after Sir Winston’s death, was unknown to her son, Viscount Norwich, who kindly gave permission to republish the article in Finest Hour.

‘Winston Churchill, not in his earliest youth, chose most wisely and most well’, she wrote. ‘His bride could have figured in a Homeric story, [suggesting] a goddess of the infant world. Blood coursed through the marble, flushing it with animation, warmth, sometimes rising to passionate heat in partisanship of a cause. She often knew the sheep from the goats better than Winston did … I often put myself in Clemmie’s shoes, and as often felt how they pinched and rubbed till I kicked them off, heroic soles and all, and begged my husband to rest and be careful. Fortunately, Clemmie was a mortal of another clay.’

Read the full article here: ‘Winston and Clementine’ by Diana Cooper, Finest Hour 83, Second Quarter 1994, scroll to page 10.

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