Family of Winston Churchill

Churchill is the eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill, the son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, and Jeanette Jerome, an American socialite and the 5th great-granddaughter of Robert Coe, an early politician in the New England Colonies.

[2] Churchill was aware of the strain that his political career placed on his marriage,[3] and, according to Jock Colville, he had a brief affair in the 1930s with Doris Castlerosse.

[8] Marigold died in August 1921, from sepsis of the throat[9] and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

[13][page needed][14] Jerome was an American socialite descended from Robert Coe, an American colonist with many notable descendants, primarily in politics, including George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States.

Prior to migrating to America, the Coe family was English gentry of Norman ancestry.