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Book review: Inside the fractious relationship between Winston Churchill and his son Randolph
Despite Winston showing intense affection for his son as a child, Randolph’s relationship with his prime minister father was mostly fractious for most of his adult life
Randolph Churchill (centre), with his parents, statesman Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill in 1939. Picture: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Sun, 23 May, 2021 - 08:39
Review: Ryle Dwyer
POPULAR leaders are frequently depicted in biographies as having lived near-perfect private family lives. Of course, people realise that this is unlikely, but there is frequently no serious questioning.
Winston Churchill is usually depicted as having saved Britain and the British Empire during World War II. He certainly deserves enormous credit for saving Britain, but serious questions could be asked about his role in saving the British Empire.
Churchill & Son
By Josh Ireland. 2021. 464 pages
When you read of domestic conflicts on a large and violent scale, you go back to the Greeks: Agamemnon’s unhappy family and the fated House of Atreus. The Churchills inhabited a similar world, full of sound, sadness and fury, shown here in all its dramatic stages.
Josh Ireland does not provide new material in this study of Winston Churchill and his relationship with his only son, Randolph, but he relates it with even-handed sympathy for both chief actors. The reader is drawn in, spell-bound at the spectacle and its tragic trajectory.
The front cover photo, taken in 1930, shows Churchill with his familiar expression of bullish determination and defiance, grasping a stick as he walks ahead of his son, then aged 19, closely following in his father’s footsteps. This was Randolph’s insoluble, lifelong problem: how to function successfully, independent of the overwhelming aura cast by his father.