053: Jennie Jerome Churchill Part 3: The Rise and Fall of Jennie and Randolphs Involvement in Politics, Their Complicated Marriage, and Randolphs Downfall Due to His Syphilis

Hello! In this weeks episode we take a look at what Jennie and Randolphs married life looked like. Jennie and Randolph, though not the most romantic of partners did make for great political partners. Unfortunatly due to Randolphs increasing difficulty with syphilis, his actions soon became eratic and his career in politcs, once promising began to tumble down. This epsiode also explores some of Jennies affairs, Life updates from both sides of the family, and snippits of a young winston churchills childhood. 

 

Sources for todays epsiode 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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