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Major Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill, MBE (May 28, 1911 – June 6, 1968) was the son of...
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Major Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill, MBE (May 28, 1911 – June 6, 1968) was the son of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Preston from 1940 to 1945.
He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford and became a journalist. In 1931 he shared Edward James' house in London with John Betjeman.
He was married twice. His first marriage, to the well-known socialite The Honourable Pamela Digby (later and better known as Pamela Harriman), produced a son, Winston Churchill, who became a Member of Parliament. By his second marriage - to June Osborne - he had a daughter, Arabella Churchill. For the last twenty years of his life, he had an affair with Natalie Bevan, the wife of a friend and neighbour, Bobby Bevan.
Randolph Churchill served with his father's old regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, and was attached for a time to the newly formed Special Air Service (SAS), joining their CO, David Stirling, on a number of missions behind enemy lines in the Libyan Desert. He also went on a military and diplomatic mission to Yugoslavia in 1944, part of the British support for the Partisans during
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