Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, was the wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and a life peer in her own right. While legally the daughter of Sir Henry Hozier, her mother Lady Blanche's known infidelity and his suspected infertility make her paternal parentage uncertain.
Churchill in 1915
Kitty Ogilvy Hozier in 1899, the year before she died
A young Winston Churchill and fiancée Clementine Hozier shortly before their marriage in 1908
Plaque on Clementine Churchill's Berkhamsted house
Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill, the British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, died on 24 January 1965, aged 90. His was the first state funeral in the United Kingdom for a non-member of the royal family since Edward Carson's in 1935. It was the last state funeral until Queen Elizabeth II's on 19 September 2022. The official funeral lasted for four days. Planning for the funeral, known as Operation Hope Not, began after Churchill's stroke in 1953 while in his second term as prime minister. After several revisions due to Churchill's continued survival, the plan was issued on 26 January 1965, two days after his death.
Funeral procession in London, 1965
A plaque in Westminster Hall commemorating the lying in state
MV Havengore which carried the coffin from Tower Pier to Waterloo station
Sir Winston Churchill's funeral train passing Clapham Junction
