Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference
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In a palace of white Crimean stone surrounded by palms and cypresses, above a beach of black pebbles, sat the Big Three: Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and their entourages. The Yalta Conference was taking place and there with the leaders that February in 1945 were Sarah Churchill, Kathleen (Kathy) Harriman, whose father was Roosevelt’s ambassador to Moscow, and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, the eldest child of FDR himself.
Kathy Harriman, one of Katz’s three “Daughters of Yalta”, was a bright, friendly 27-year-old with the sort of glossy looks and brimming self-confidence that come from being brought up inside a golden ring of wealth and privilege.