Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of the World War II podcast. I'm Angus Wallace

with this month being the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe

that's May 2020 if you're listening in the future. I thought I'd squeeze in an

extra episode. Partly as a thank you to all those who sent me kind words of encouragement

and also to those who signed on to become patrons of the

podcast at patreon dot com forward slash W. W. W. W.2 podcast or

W. W. W.2 podcast dotcom forward slash support.

In this episode I'm going to be talking to Marie Benedict.

Marie, email me last year to suggest I might want to have a chat about Clementine Churchill.

Now I've read a biography of Clementine and the letters between her and Winston Churchill

and I've always been fascinated by their relationship.

While in some respects Clementine might not be an obvious World War II topic,

in others she was at the centre of the war effort as the letters between Clementine and Winston demonstrate.

They were very much a double act.

Anyway, it's taken me six months to get around to reading Marie's book, simply titled Lady Clementine.

Marie, thanks for joining me. Clementine Hosea, what is her family background? I assume

she's aristocratic.

One of the things that really attracted me to Clementine from the start was her really unusual background.

You know, she certainly she came from this aristocratic family.

Her mother was a Stanley, they had a castle,

the early castle.

Her peers, her family members were all very often

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