Lady Churchill has been described as being a captivating woman, whose looks and demeanor made her almost irresistible to many who knew her.

Applauding lightly we see several women guests, including Lady Churchill, born Jenny Jerome, Winston's mother.

Colville was a Trustee of both Sir Winston and Lady Churchill's estates.

Whether Lady Churchill knew of her husband's distaste for the homburg is uncertain.

From 1854 to her death, Lady Churchill was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria.

When an elegant Englishman once was asked to identify a woman in the royal box, she replied: "I thought it was Lady Churchill.

Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill (1954) was deliberately destroyed by Lady Churchill because she did not like it.

At the start of the visit, Lady Churchill confided to Mrs Dietenbaker that Sir Winston had been greatly looking forward to meeting her husband.

After the death of Lady Churchill in 1977, it became clear that she had destroyed the painting some months after it was delivered.

Lady Churchill had also destroyed earlier portraits of her husband that she disliked, including examples by Walter Sickert and Paul Maze.