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Old 06-03-2008, 02:35 AM   #46 (permalink)
Gerry Chester
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As to that wasn't Churchill's Mum a yank? or was it his grand mum? One of them was. So we COULD claim if we liked that he was HALF ours.
Many years ago, a little apprehensive, I called upon my Amercian wife-to-be's parents to ask her father for her hand in marriage. While she and her mother were anxiously listening from behind a closed door I made my entrance, with some trepidation it must be confessed.

Having made the request there was a long period before a response was forthcoming. eventually her Dad stuck out his hand saying the never to be forgotten words: "Winston Churchill is half American - welcome to the family boy!"

Cheers, Gerry

PS: WSC's moher Lady Randolph Churchill (Clementine)was an American.
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