Lady Clementine

I read a book about Clementine Churchill called Lady Clementine. The author is Marie Benedict. Clementine was an ambitious and intelligent woman. She married Winston in 1908.  They enjoyed a long honeymoon in Italy which is where the eldest of their five children was conceived. During World War One she organized canteens for munitions workers in London. During World War Two she visited bomb shelters around London. She was appalled by the conditions in these bomb shelters. The floors were wet. There were two buckets for human waste and it reeked in there. With her assistance the conditions in the bomb shelters improved. She provided political advice to her husband. She helped him edit his speeches. If the author of this book is correct, she and Winston had a loving relationship and she called him Pug. Being the wife of Winston Churchill was demanding. Several times the work she did for him and the work of running the household and caring for five children became too much and she had to take weeks off to recover her strength and mental fortitude. I did not know much about her and reading this book was engrossing.