Ancestral Trails 2016 » Diana SPENCER-CHURCHILL (1909-1963)

Personal data Diana SPENCER-CHURCHILL 

• She was born on July 11, 1909 in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
• She died on October 20, 1963, she was 54 years old.

  Suicide - Barbiturates Overdose

• She is buried October 1963 in St Martin, Bladon, Oxfordshire.
• A child of Winston Leonard SPENCER-CHURCHILL and Clementine Ogilvy HOZIER

Household of Diana SPENCER-CHURCHILL

(1) She is married to John MILNER-BAILEY.

They got married on December 12, 1932, she was 23 years old.

(2) She is married to Edwin Duncan SANDYS.

They got married on September 16, 1935, she was 26 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Julian SANDYS  1936-1997 
2. (Not public)
3. (Not public)

Notes about Diana SPENCER-CHURCHILL

Diana Spencer-Churchill (11 July 1909 - 20 October 1963) was the eldest daughter of British statesman Sir Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier).

She attended Notting Hill High School and then the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she spent five terms, although her focus was not on acting. On 12 December 1932, she married John Milner Bailey (15 June 1900 East Grinstead - 13 February 1946 Cape Town, South Africa) (became the Bailey baronet Sir John Milner Bailey, 2nd Bt), but the marriage was unsuccessful and they divorced in 1935. On 16 September 1935, she married the Conservative politician, Duncan Sandys (later life peer Lord Duncan-Sandys). After having three children, that marriage also ended and they were divorced in 1960.

On 11 April 1962, her name was legally changed back to Diana Churchill.

Children
With Duncan Sandys she had three children:

The Honourable Julian Sandys (19 September 1936 - 15 August 1997) he married Elisabeth Martin in 1970. They have four children:
Lucy Diana Sandys (born 1971); she married David Pite in 2007. They have two children:
Iona Susan Pite (b. 2010)
Clementine Elisabeth Pite (b. 2014)
Duncan John Winston Sandys (b. 1973); he married Mary Brown C. Brewer and divorced in 2016. They have one son:
Julian George Winston Sandys (b. 10 April 2008)
Jonathan Martin Edwin Sandys (1975-2018); he married Sara Hill in 2009. They have two children, who are the first descendants of Sir Winston Churchill to be born in the United States (Texas):[3]
Jesse Benjamin Sandys (b. 2014)
Arizona Jane Sandys (b. 2016)
Roderick Julian Frederick Sandys (1977 - 9 December 2007)
The Honourable Edwina Sandys (b. 29 December 1938); she married Piers Dixon in 1960 and divorced in 1973. They have two sons. She married Richard D. Kaplan in 1985.
Mark Pierson Dixon (b. 1962)
Hugo Duncan Dixon (b. 1963)
The Honourable Celia Sandys (b. 18 May 1943); she married Michael Kennedy in 1965 and divorced in 1970. They have one son. She remarried Sir Dennis Walters in 1970 and were divorced in 1979. They have one son. She remarried Maj.-Gen. Kenneth Perkins in 1985. They have two children.
Justin Kennedy (b. 1967)
Dominic Walters (b. 1971)
Alexander Winston Duncan Perkins (b. 1986)
Sophie Rachel Perkins (b. 1988)

Military service
She was an officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service during the Second World War.

Health issues and suicide
Diana had several nervous breakdowns. In 1962, she began working with the Samaritans, an organisation created for suicide-prevention. In 1963, she died, at age 54, from an overdose of barbiturates. A coroner later concluded that the death was a suicide. She is buried with her parents (who both outlived her) and siblings at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Churchill

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