clementina worried that she was giving too much aid-- way. there were times when roosevelt and clementina warned him-- the interesting thing was that stalin hated churchill. that was never going to be a very from the relationship and that cause many pulp-- problems we needed russia on the side and they needed to be around to help fight the war. she raised close to $500 million for her aid to russia because the country was completely bankrupt. a bit like a sort of early flag day, anything. this money she raised, she sent to russia to reequip. even stalin was astonished at this achievement, absolutely astonished that she had done this, so he invited her to russia in april 1945, and they met on their own at the kremlin and he gave her this very sort of prestigious commonest honor, badge. it gave her permanent russian pension and free travel all over russia not that she ever had any use for that, but she actually negotiated with stalin on her own. again, quite extraordinary. no other prime minister's wife, i mean, it would be impossible and yet t

three times clementina did get engaged. she was always under pressure to get married and that they are all meant to her mother's liking , the rightful fit. they were dull, complacent, weren't interested in other people and they weren't nearly as clever as it she was. clearly, misery was ahead and she broke each one and started getting a bit of a reputation, which is what happened as she did that thing, but the fact where she was not in love and she was something of a romantic. in 1904, she went to a ball and she was particularly lovely that evening and someone else entered the room and it was winston churchill and he was immediately struck by her. she was willowy, sort of athletic looking in a way with these amazing sapphire blue eyes that you can't really get the picture of in photographs that were quite dazzling and people who knew her talk about them now and she had this sort of aura and he has to be introduced to her and he was and he could not think of a single word to say to her, so the great wordsmith stood there spe

what is very strange is no one remembers clementina now. she's really not valid anymore.in fact, i'll show you the picture of her. they are all well educated, knowledgeable women of the world. i knew one, knowing who she was. so she hasn't traded into one. who was she? it is worth reflect gain and that's great, she never had the chance to study for her degree herself that she was one of victorian age and did not undergraduate in britain the silly comparative rarity in the 20th century. her mother, the willful lady blanche, oldest daughter had made very, very certain that she wouldn't go to university. brady bunch had woken down onto the weight of both sides, disapproved of bluestockings. particularly, as you're saying mass. anyone who could do some incapable of attracting many men. they had great hopes in the wealthy husband and i would solve two problems. it would take this rather an conventional daughter of her softer hands and she also never had any money although she was hard up and clementine had grown a period she has grown up being used to having to go to stores an