The Churchills are coming to speak at the bequest of longtime friend and Knoxville businessman Monroe Trout. “From Brooklyn to Blenheim and Beyond” is presented by the East Tennessee Historical Society. We must be grateful that we live in a privileged way, and we must not forget those privileges,” he said. I’m passionate about people exercising their rights. You just can’t take those things for granted. “I think the most important thing is that we must never forget how many people died to secure our freedom and liberties. Decades after that war ended he said it’s important that people today remember the sacrifices made then. Randolph Churchill also will discuss his great-grandfather’s role during the World War II D-Day invasion. They will read from love letters written by Jennie Jerome and their great-great-grandfather Randolph Churchill during the couple’s whirlwind 1873 romance. The talk “From Brooklyn to Blenheim and Beyond - The Influence of Winston Churchill’s Mother” is free.Ĭhurchill will be joined for part of the presentation by his sister, Jennie Churchill Repard. Jennie Jerome Churchill’s influence on her famous son is the topic of a talk Randolph Churchill will present at noon Tuesday, Oct. “I find it amazing that the New World, in the form of America, provided the mother of the child who was to save the Old World,” he said in a telephone interview from London. His mother gave young Winston the values of independence and freedom as well as a sense of humanity, said Churchill, great-grandson of Winston and great-great-grandson of Jennie Churchill. Yet the man so identified with his beloved England was the son of an American woman.īrooklyn-born Jennie Jerome Churchill was herself an extraordinary person who inspired in her oldest son values that would serve him - and Great Britain - in the years to come, said descendant Randolph Churchill II. Decades after he led Great Britain through World War II, Winston Churchill remains a strong, reassuring symbol of determination, victory and freedom.
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