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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16584, 17 November 1921, Page 9

-n tt, Lady Randolph Churchill. Mr M inston Churchill’s mother, died as the* di- ! rcct result of a fall when going upI stairs on an afternoon in May. When ' Lady Randolph, then Miss Jeanette : Jerome, first met Lord Randolph at i Cowes, lio was twenty-four and she i was nineteen. That night Lord Ran- ! dolph confided to an intimate friend ■ that he had met the right girl. And : Miss Jerome confided to her intimate friends that she had met the right man. Three days later Lord Randolph proposed, and was accepted. At that time Lady Randolph was amazingly beautiful and the most famous of all the American beauties who hare married : into the British nobility. Added to i which she had very great charm, “ an | extraordinary amount of enerr-v- a i perfect blaze of vitality, an accorri- | plished wit, a.nd a remarkably sound j taste in art.” It used to be said of her | when things were going against Lord j Randolph and she fought for him that “her smile was as powerful as o Cabinet Minister's speech.”