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Book review: Inside the fractious relationship between Winston Churchill and his son Randolph


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. ....

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The Dorchester hotel 90th anniversary history best moments


The Mayfair Suite
Picture the scene. It s 20 April 1931, and Lady Astor is cutting the ribbon to open the capital s newest and grandest hotel: The Dorchester. The Terrace is humming with liveried waiters sharpening carving knives and sniffing corks, while Jack Jackson and his orchestra (The Dorchester s resident swing band) provide a background serenade. The moment is instantly iconic. When Sir Robert McAlpine conceived this soaring landmark on Park Lane, constructed in steel and concrete (unlike the other London landmark hotels, which were made of Victorian brick and Portland stone), it represented sheer extravagance, 1930s hubris, Mayfair gone mad.
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The hotel hit the big time in the war years, when it became the social nexus of the capital, with Cecil Beaton commenting on the mixed brew who moved in; from government ministers to General Eisenhower (who used it as his wartime base). Lord and Lady Halifax (who relocated from Belgravia and took nine suite ....

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