1. Frances Vane, marchioness of Londonderry and Churchill’s paternal great-grandmother, whose Garron Tower estate in Ireland he unexpectedly inherited in January 1921, almost sixty years after her death.
2. The ‘fabulous’ Leonard Jerome, Churchill’s maternal grandfather and an early Wall Street adventurer, late in his life, circa 1880.
3. The Jerome family mansion on the corner of Madison Avenue and 23rd Street, New York. It provided the security for Leonard Jerome’s contribution to the marriage settlement of Churchill’s parents.
4. Lord Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome, Churchill’s parents, shortly before or after their wedding, 1874.
5. Winston (left, aged fifteen) and Jack Churchill (right, aged twelve) at Canford House, the home of their generous aunt Cornelia Spencer Churchill, Lady Wimborne, 1892.
6. Churchill outside The Morning Post’s tent, reporting for the newspaper on the Boer War while ‘embedded’ with the South African Light Horse, 1900.
7. Sir Ernest Cassel in 1906. An immigrant from Germany, next-door neighbour of the Churchills and leading City of London banker, Cassel acted as a financial adviser (and benefactor) to Edward VII and Churchill.
8. Edward Marsh, Churchill’s long-serving private secretary, occasional literary ghost and frequent copy-editor. In his own right Marsh was a patron of artists and published anthologies of the ‘Georgian poets’.
9. Churchill, home secretary, riding to George V’s coronation with his mother, Jennie, June 1911. Clementine was spared the coach journey because she had given birth to Randolph a month earlier.
10. Churchill and his fiancée, Clementine Hozier, shortly before their wedding, September 1908.
11. Churchill, president of the board of trade, with David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, at the height of their political intimacy, circa 1910.
12. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, inspecting bare-footed trainee sailors, 1912.
13. Churchill, colonel of the 6th battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, with his second-in-command, Major Sir Archibald Sinclair at Armentières on the Western Front, 1916.
14. Churchill’s principle literary and film patrons: Thornton Butterworth, London, 1938
15. Churchill’s principle literary and film patrons: Charles Scribner III of Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York
16. Churchill’s principle literary and film patrons: Newman Flower of Cassell & Co.
17. Churchill’s principle literary and film patrons: Alexander Korda, founding owner of London Film Productions.
18. An extract from Churchill’s bank statement, showing repeated cash withdrawals from the Casino de Cannes in France, January 1923.
19. A characteristic Churchill ‘forecast’ of his income, expenditure and bank balance, covering the last quarter of 1923 and first half of 1924.
20. The Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII (left) with one of Churchill’s financial mentors and benefactors, the mining financier Sir Abe Bailey (right), 1925.
21. Churchill boar-hunting in Normandy as a guest of the duke of Westminster, accompanied by his son Randolph (left) and Coco Chanel (centre), the duke’s girlfriend at the time.
22. Churchill with his son Randolph (left), nephew John (centre left) and brother Jack (right) during the family visit to Canada and the US, 1929.
23. During the same journey, Churchill with his nephew John (far left), son Randolph (second left), the earl of Feversham (centre) and Bernard Baruch, at Chicago, bound for New York, shortly before the Wall Street crash, October 1929.
24. Maxine Elliott, American actress and frequent hostess of Churchill at her château in the south of France, circa 1920.
25. Sir Henry Strakosch, mining company chairman, part-owner of the Economist, a Churchill informant on German rearmament – and twice Churchill’s financial saviour, 1931.
26. Churchill leaving for the House of Commons with Brendan Bracken (right), Churchill’s ‘honorary man of business’, in which capacity he twice arranged Churchill’s financial rescue, April 1939.
27. Map of Churchill’s Chartwell farming empire (after the purchase of Chartwell and Bardogs farms, but before the purchase of Parkside), 1947. Chartwell itself stands at the centre left.
28. Emery Reves, Churchill’s pre-war press agent and post-war negotiator for the sale of his war memoirs; with his partner Wendy, later his wife, Venice, circa 1950.
29. An analysis by Churchill’s secretaries of his households’ consumption of champagne, wine and spirits during April and May, 1949.
30. Churchill at Chartwell with Joyce Hall (standing, right) of Hallmark Cards, Mrs Hall (seated, left), their son (standing, left) and Anthony Moir (standing, centre), Churchill’s solicitor and tax adviser, July 1950.
31. Churchill helped off of Aristotle Onassis’ yacht Christina by Onassis (left) and Churchill’s bodyguard, Edmond Murray (right), August 1959.
32. Churchill surveying his Chartwell domain, as captured by photographer Phillippe Halsman, 1947.