Lady Randolph — the vivacious, resourceful American socialite and heiress née Jennie Jerome — married Lord Randolph Churchill, the third son of the Duke of Marlborough and a maverick Tory MP ...

A singularly determined American socialite, she clocked up 200 lovers (from the Prince of Wales downwards) ... Jennie Churchill was creative and passionate, determined to live life to the full.

This finely researched, sumptuous novel from Barron (The Jane Austen Mysteries) follows the journey of American heiress Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill.Socialite Jennie marries Lord ...

America had just entered World War I and socialite Jennie Jerome married Sir Randolph Churchill and became a part of the inner circle of the royal family during Queen Victoria’s reign.

American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill Anne Sebba, . . Norton, $26.95 (398pp) ISBN 978-0-393-05772-0 ...

IF Jennie Jerome hadn’t married Lord Randolph Churchill there would have been no Winston Churchill and the whole course of world history could… ...

Churchill’s mother, a beautiful socialite who had forged close alliances with wealthy and powerful men in both her native and adopted countries, provided Churchill his first introduction to the ...