The new TV series The Buccaneers shows in detail a time when English aristocrats were in high demand as marriage material for wealthy American girls and their socially ambitious families.
In this dual biography of two famous women whose sons changed the course of the 20th century, the award-winning historian Charlotte Gray breathes new life into Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt. <i>Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons</i> offers a fulsome portrait of how leaders are not just born but made. <br/><br/>Sara Delano, the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill, were both born into upper-class America in 1854. A vivacious extrovert, Jennie married Lord Randolph Churchill, a rising politician and scion of a noble British family. Deeply conventional Sara Delano married a man as old as her father. As mothers, both woman turned their energies toward enabling their sons to reach the epicenter of political power on two continents. Set against one hundred years of history and filled with intriguing social insight, <b><i>Passionate Mothers, Powerful So
Workers have completed a multi-million project to dredge 500,000 tonnes of silt and restore the man-made lake at Blenheim Palace, restoring the feature to its former glory.
Despite being greeted by widespread horror and pained dismissal, Robert Kennedy Jr.’s quest has, in its outlandish improbability, at least faint trace elements of the family’s political playbook,
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