ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Churchill strides forcefully ahead during the Anglo-Irish conference in Downing Street, October 1921. Hulton Archive / Getty Images.
2. Lady Randolph (‘Jennie’) Churchill, Winston’s beloved mother. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
3. In the bosom of his family: the young Winston with his mother and younger brother, John (‘Jack’). Time Life Pictures / Getty Images.
4. Churchill heads the family procession at his mother’s funeral, July 1921. Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
5. Clementine with daughter Marigold (‘the Duckadilly’). Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
6. Winston and his only son Randolph. Keystone-France / Getty Images.
7. A casual Winston and Clementine enjoy a rare relaxing moment in the garden. SZ Photo / Scherl / Bridgeman Images.
8. Captain Frederick (‘Freddie’) Guest, Churchill’s favourite cousin. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
9. Clare Sheridan, Churchill’s ‘wild cousin’. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
10. The charismatic Boris Savinkov, former anti-Tsarist revolutionary and political assassin on whom Churchill pinned his hopes of toppling Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Hulton Archive / Getty Images.
11. Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, 1890–1970, portrait by Augustus John. National Galleries of Scotland.
12. ‘Winston’s Bag: He hunts lions and brings home decayed cats’, cartoon by David Low. From The Star, January 1920. LSE6215, British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent.
13. ‘A New Hat’, cartoon by Sidney Conrad Strube. From the Daily Express, January 1921.
14. Churchill takes a front row seat at the Cairo Conference, March 1921. General Photographic Agency / Getty Images.
15. Churchill, escorted by Palestine High Commissioner and former Liberal Home Secretary Sir Herbert Samuel, greets Zionist youth during his visit to Jerusalem following the Cairo Conference.
16. Churchill with Clementine, Gertrude Bell, and T. E. Lawrence (‘Lawrence of Arabia’) in front of the Sphinx, March 1921. Fremantle / Alamy Stock Photo.
17. Churchill with T. E. Lawrence during his Middle East trip. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction, number LC-USZ62-65460].
18. Abdullah of Transjordan, brother to Faisal of Iraq, shakes hands with Clementine on the steps of Government House in Jerusalem, March 1921. Photo 12 / Getty Images.
19. Hazel, Lady Lavery unlocked Churchill’s artistic inhibitions and played hostess to Michael Collins during the Anglo-Irish treaty talks. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction, number LC-B2- 2990-9].
20. Michael Collins delivers a passionate speech, late 1921 or early 1922. Roger Viollet / Getty Images.
21. Churchill in Dundee with Sir George Ritchie following severe riots, September 1921. D. C. Thomson & Co Ltd.
22. The wealthy and well-connected Sir Philip Sassoon on the steps of his home at Lympne on the Channel coast in Kent. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
23. The ‘Big Three’ of the Coalition: Churchill seen here with F. E. Smith (Lord Birkenhead, the Lord Chancellor) and Prime Minister David Lloyd George, 1921. Fremantle / Alamy Stock Photo.
24. Churchill playing his beloved polo, 1921. Hulton Deutsch / Getty Images.
25. Winston Churchill Painting, portrait by Sir John Lavery. Fremantle / Alamy Stock Photo.