It's a History Podcast

051: Jennie Jerome Churchill Part 1: Her Early Years, Time in France, and Meeting Lord Randolph Churchill


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Hello! In this weeks episode we start our deep dive into the life of Jennie Jerome Churchill. In todays epsiode we start our look by getting a grasp on her parents seperate fortunes, the time the family spent in Paris France in the court of Empress Euguinie, and the first meeting between Jennie and Randolph that led to very quick marriage.

This is the first epsiode in what is expected to be a four part series.

Sources of today's episode include the husband hunters:

American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy by Anne Decourcy

And

Jennie: The Life of the American Beauty who Became the Toast and Scandal of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son, Winston churchil, who Shaped history by Ralph G Martin.

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