Mary Soames

Mary Soames (1922-2014) was born Mary Spencer-Churchill, the youngest of Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine's five children. Her wartime diaries are collected in Mary Churchill’s War, edited by her daughter, Emma Soames.

Mary Soames also wrote an acclaimed biography of her mother, Clementine Churchill (first published in 1979) and edited Speaking for Themselves, a collection of the personal letters between Winston and Clementine Churchill. Her memoir A Daughter’s Tale was published in 2011, three years before her death.