http://localhost:8080/churchill-nonsense-parts-1462-64 Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Fri, 26 Jan 2024 20:56:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/churchill-nonsense-parts-1462-64#comment-12843 Sun, 17 Jan 2016 19:44:20 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=3985#comment-12843 I remember my late father would say -when he heard salacious tales about this celebrity or that politician- that “I don’t really know -I wasn’t there with my camera.” In other words, rumors do not signify rockhard evidence. I have always read that Lady Randolph Churchill was 1) very beautiful 2) somewhat promiscuous (though not by today’s standards. Any other upping of the ante is, really, an attack on WSC himself. Ultimately, it is a sly way of making people wonder if he was legitimate. Therefore, we should dismiss such ad hominem attacks for what they are: wild, unsubstantiated rumors. One one last point I read the Christina Morrison obituary. #1 she did know Churchill and would have had a chance, perhaps, to catch him in his pajamas. As I recall, a number of people have said they saw WSC in bed or in his pajamas. #2 it is not such a wild tale and therefore, I would say it is “probably” true. Miss Morrison had no reason to make up such a story and it does no harm to WSC. It only humanizes him.

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