Y/M/D | Description | Place |
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1904/00/00 | Churchill meets Clementine Hozier at a ball in Crewe House, home of the Earl of Crewe. | Crewe Hall, Crewe Green |
1907/04/00 | Violet Asquith, daughter of Rt Hon Sir Herbert Asquith (Prime Minister between April 1908 to December 1916) encounters Winston Churchill one April weekend at Lady Desborough's Taplow Court. | Taplow House Hotel, Taplow |
1908/04/00 | Winston is seated next to Clementine at a dinner party hosted by Lady St Helier. | |
1908/04/08 | Churchill is invited by Herbert Asquith to be President of the Board of Trade - the youngest man to join the British Cabinet in almost half a century. | |
1908/07/00 | Winston agrees to come to Slains Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 17 August 1908 and to stay with the Asquith family for at least a week. | |
1908/08/10 | Strolling together on the Blenheim Palace grounds, Winston and Clementine take refuge from a sudden rainstorm in the Temple of Diana where Winston proposes marriage to her. | Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire |
1908/08/11 | After breakfast, Winston and Clementine take a walk through the rose garden before her departure from Blenheim Palace. | |
1908/08/12 | Churchill Winston writes to Violet Asquith saying that he is engaged to Clementine Hozier and he'd have to postpone his trip to Scotland. | |
1908/08/24 | Wanting to explain to Violet his decision to marry Clementine, Churchill boards a train at Kings Cross for the 14-hour journey to Cruden Bay. A furious Clementine will threaten to call off the wedding. | Kings Cross Station, London |
1908/08/24 | At Slains Castle, Violet and Churchill have a very long talk. Winston tells her that he has made the right decision to marry Clementine, but that he and Violet should still remain close friends. | |
1908/09/12 | Clementine Hozier and Winston Churchill are married by the Bishop of St Asaph at St Margaret's, Westminster. | Church Of St Margaret, Westminster, London |
1908/09/19 | Violet Asquith walks out of Slains Castle with a book and heads down the path above the cliffs. | |
1908/09/19 | After hosting a dinner, Prime Minister Asquith and his wife notice Violet is missing. Servants with lanterns, dinner guests and dozens of villagers search the rugged slopes and ledges. | |
1908/09/20 | Violet Asquith is found by a local fisherman lying near the coastal path with no signs of injury. | |
1908/10/00 | Winston and Clementine return from their honeymoon in Italy to Winston's bachelor pad at 12 Bolton St, London. Bolton was Winston's home form 1905-1909. | Bolton Street, London |
1908/11/00 | Two months after Churchill-Hozier wedding, Winston, Clementine and Violet have lunch together in London. | |
1909/03/00 | Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill move to 33 Eccleston Square. | 27-41, Eccleston Square Sw1, Eccleston Square |
1958/09/12 | Churchill and Clementine mark their Golden wedding anniversary at the Villa Capponcina, Lord Beaverbrook's estate in France. |
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