Picture credits

1. Frances Vane, marchioness of Londonderry, Churchill’s great-grandmother (National Portrait Gallery).

2. Leonard Jerome, Churchill’s maternal grandfather (The Granger Collection/Topfoto).

3. The Jerome family mansion on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York (Library of Congress).

4. Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, 1874 (Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill).

5. Winston and Jack Churchill as teenagers, 1892 (BNPS).

6. Churchill reporting on the Boer War in southern Africa, 1900 (Library of Congress).

7. Sir Ernest Cassel, banker and financial adviser, 1906 (Timea/Wiki).

8. Edward Marsh, Churchill’s private secretary and literary assistant (Topfoto).

9. Churchill and his fiancée, Clementine Hozier, 1908 (Getty Images).

10. Churchill, as home secretary, on his way to the coronation of George V, 1911 (Ullstein bild/Getty Images).

11. Churchill and David Lloyd George, political allies, circa 1910 (Buyenlarge/Getty Images).

12. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, inspecting trainee sailors, 1912 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images).

13. Colonel Churchill and his second-in-command Major Sir Archibald Sinclair, Armentières, 1916 (Keystone/Getty Images).

14. Thornton Butterworth, London publisher, 1938 (Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill).

15. Charles Scribner III, New York publisher (Princeton University Archive).

16. Newman Flower, chairman of London publishers Cassell & Co. (Alamy).

17. Alexander Korda, film producer and director, circa 1935 (John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images).

18. An extract from Churchill’s bank statement, January 1923 (Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill).

19. Churchill’s handwritten financial ‘forecast’, 1923–4 (Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill).

20. Sir Abe Bailey and the Prince of Wales, 1925 (Topfoto).

21. Churchill boar-hunting in Normandy, 1928 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images).

22. The Churchill ‘troupe’ in America, 1929 (Time Life Pictures/Getty Images).

23. Churchill and Bernard Baruch, Chicago, 1929 (Chicago History Museum/Getty Images).

24. Maxine Elliott, American actress and hostess, circa 1920 (Everett Collection / Rex Features).

25. Sir Henry Strakosch, banker and economist, 1931 (Associated Newspapers/Rex Features).

26. Churchill with Brendan Bracken, his ‘honorary man of business’, 1939 (Central Press/Getty Images).

27. Churchill’s Chartwell farming empire, 1947 (Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill).

28. Emery and Wendy Reves in Venice, circa 1950 (Dallas Museum of Art Archives).

29. The Churchill households’ wine consumption, April–May 1949 (Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill).

30. Churchill with his solicitor Anthony Moir and the Hall family at Chartwell, 1950 (Churchill Press Photographs Collection/Planet News).

31. Churchill leaves Aristotle Onassis’ yacht Christina (Topfoto/AP).

32. Churchill surveying his Chartwell domain, 1947 (Philippe Halsman/Magnum).

Endpapers:

Investment schedule with Cassel, 1900–1901 (Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill).