Talk:Lady Randolph Churchill
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[edit] Early Life
According to her 1969 biography, Lady Randolph Churchill, by her niece, Anita Leslie, Jennette "Jennie" Jerome was the second of Leonard Jerome's three (not four) daughters: Clara, Jennie, and Leonie, in that order. I also definitely think it's worth mentioning that Leonard owned The New York Times. Dick Kimball (talk) 13:16, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Marriage and Adultery
It should be noted that Lord Randolph Churchill had contracted the syphillis that killed him at the age of 45 prior to marrying Jennie. This inclines one to believe that "Randy" (as he was ironically known) was not Jack's father, since Jennie would presumably cease having sex with her husband immediately upon discovering that he was syphallitic. Besides, 56 isn't so remarkably old to father a child with a young and fertile woman.
Oh, and what the Churchills were doing in Ireland was that they had to leave England after Randy deeply offended the Prince of Wales by brandishing a stack of the latter's love letters to one of his early mistresses. Dick Kimball (talk) 20:19, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
It should be noted that the Halls' always believed there was Iroquois blood in their family.Sometimes it's difficult determining who was Indian or not.The fact that the Hall family admitted it (before it was "trendy" to claim American Indian ancestry) should be taken into consideration. Jennie, in fact looks far more Indian than most celebrities claiming it today.jeanne (talk) 15:20, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I now want to eat my words about Jack Churchill's parentage. Having seen a photo of Jack and Winston together, the family resemblance is so strong that I now doubt that they might have had different fathers. Dick Kimball (talk) 13:16, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
