Lady mary soames biography books

English author (–)

"Mary Churchill" redirects here. For the duchess, see Mary Montagu, Duchess of Montagu (–).

Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, LG, DBE, FRSL (née&#;Spencer Churchill; 15 September &#;&#; 31 May ) was an English author.

The youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine,^[1] she worked for public organisations including the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service from to , and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in She was the wife of Conservative politician Christopher Soames.

Biography

Mary Spencer Churchill was born in London, in the same week as her father, Winston Churchill, purchased Chartwell, a country house in Kent; she was brought up there, attending local schools.^[2] She worked for the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service from to , and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in ^[2] with which she served in London, Belgium and Germany i