05 - RUPER SOAMES READS ”THE PROFLIGATE DUKE”

Lady Mary Soames, Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter, was a friend of Chartwell Booksellers from our inception. She dropped in often when she was in town, always unannounced, to check on sales of her books and sign copies. She was utterly down to earth and altogether charming.

Her first authored work was a biography of her mother, CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL, which came out in 1979, four years before we opened. We have carried it continuously ever after. She followed this with a delightfully offbeat biography of the Churchill family’s most dissolute ancestor, THE PROFLIGATE DUKE:George Spencer Churchill, Fifth Duke of Marlborough, and his Duchess,  published in 1987, our fifth year of existence. It is the next book in our 40th Readings at Chartwell Booksellers video series, as read by her son, Rupert Soames.