# Winston Churchill has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 5, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426 "2010-03-05T16:13:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/1 "2010-03-05T16:13:47Z")
[Here](http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2010/100303churchill.html?WT.mc_id=100305epilot&WT.mc_sect=gan). > [@](#): > > Winston Churchill, grandson of the famous British leader during World War II and a lifelong pilot, died at his home in London. He had prostate cancer. > > \ > > Some of his fondest aviation memories involved midnight flights to transport medical patients around Europe free of charge. He was a recipient of such flights last year when he needed transportation for cancer treatments. He was the son of Randolph Churchill and Pamela Digby, later known as Pamela Harrison, U.S. ambassador to France. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/2 "2010-03-05T17:08:07Z")
Pamela Harriman? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/3 "2010-03-05T17:44:43Z")
Wow, for a second there I thought I was a whole lot worse with history than I actually am. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/4 "2010-03-05T17:53:48Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Wow, for a second there I thought I was a whole lot worse with history than I actually am. You and me, both. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/5 "2010-03-05T18:02:16Z")
Don’t be absurd! Winston Churchill died back in 1947. > **[Winston Churchill (novelist)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_%28novelist%29)** > > Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 – March 12, 1947) was an American best-selling novelist of the early 20th century. > He is nowadays overshadowed, even as a writer, by the more famous British statesman of the same name, to whom he was not related. > Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding Churchill by his marriage to Emma Bell Blaine. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894. At the Naval Academy, he was ... ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/6 "2010-03-05T18:57:18Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Pamela Harriman? [The Hon. Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Harriman) – who certainly reprised the real-life role created by her grandmother-in-law Jennie Jerome quite ably. ---
**Author:** ![LunarPlexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/7 "2010-03-05T19:04:56Z")
Any update to the status of the grandson of Generalissimo Francisco Franco? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/8 "2010-03-05T19:20:46Z")
> [@LunarPlexus](#): > > Any update to the status of the grandson of Generalissimo Francisco Franco? Still hanging on to dear life. Now, I wonder if Michael Jackson is feeling okay, though? ---
**Author:** ![LunarPlexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/9 "2010-03-05T20:29:33Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Now, I wonder if Michael Jackson is feeling okay, though? Hard to get any specifics on his offspring. Mostly what I can find are blanket statements. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/10 "2010-03-06T15:18:17Z")
> [@LunarPlexus](#): > > Any update to the status of the grandson of Generalissimo Francisco Franco? Well, his [great-grandson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Alphonse,_Duke_of_Anjou) theoretically could become Louis XX of France someday. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/11 "2010-03-06T15:25:13Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > [The Hon. Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Harriman) – who certainly reprised the real-life role created by her grandmother-in-law Jennie Jerome quite ably. I have a biography of her. Fascinating woman. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/12 "2010-03-07T13:37:35Z")
The obligatory Winston Churchill anecdote is that told by the late [Clement Freud](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Freud), who was a Liberal MP during the 70s and 80s and who once went with him to China in a cross-party delegation of MPs. At each stop on the tour Churchill was always accorded special treatment: best room in each hotel, particular attention from waiters, etc. Miffed, Freud commented on this to one of their hosts, who duly explained “Well, Mr Churchill had such a very famous grandfather.” Freud subsequently observed that “It is the only occasion in my life when I have been out-grandfathered.” ---
**Author:** ![LunarPlexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winston-churchill-has-died/531426/13 "2010-03-07T15:52:06Z")
> [@bonzer](#): > > The obligatory Winston Churchill anecdote is that told by the late [Clement Freud](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Freud), who was a Liberal MP during the 70s and 80s and who once went with him to China in a cross-party delegation of MPs. At each stop on the tour Churchill was always accorded special treatment: best room in each hotel, particular attention from waiters, etc. Miffed, Freud commented on this to one of their hosts, who duly explained “Well, Mr Churchill had such a very famous grandfather.” > Freud subsequently observed that “It is the only occasion in my life when I have been out-grandfathered.” Sometimes particular attention from waiters is just particular attention from waiters.