Click here for an introduction to Churchill’s friends.
Choose a character from the table of 30 below, or from one of these mystery seven:
- A movie star whose coffin was dug up and held for ransom.
- A member of royalty who was threatened with a court martial.
- A business tycoon whose family was sometimes said to be cursed.
- A futurist who envisioned the development of the nuclear bomb, decades beforehand.
- A movie icon who gained daily inspiration from one of Churchill’s paintings.
- A fashion designer who made suntans trendy from the 1920s.
- A foreign foe who became one of the UK’s most trusted advisors.
![]() | Aga Khan III (Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah) | Indian Muslim imam | 1877-1957 |
![]() | Asquith, Lady (Violet Bonham Carter) | UK political activist, diarist | 1887-1969 |
![]() | Baruch, Bernard | US financier, political advisor, philanthropist | 1870-1965 |
![]() | Beaverbrook, Lord (Max Aitken) | UK publisher, politician, author | 1879-1964 |
![]() | Birkenhead, Lord (F.E. Smith) | UK barrister, politician | 1872-1930 |
![]() | Camrose, Lord (William Berry) | UK publisher | 1879-1954 |
![]() | Chanel, Coco | French fashion designer | 1883-1971 |
![]() | Chaplin, Charlie | UK actor, filmmaker | 1889-1977 |
![]() | Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor) | UK royalty | 1894-1972 |
![]() | Elizabeth II | UK royalty | 1926-2022 |
![]() | Elliott, Maxine | US actress, businesswoman, socialite | 1869-1940 |
![]() | George VI | UK royalty | 1895-1952 |
![]() | Halle, Kay | US writer, socialite | 1903-1977 |
![]() | Harriman, Averell | US politician, diplomat | 1891-1986 |
![]() | Korda, Alexander | UK film producer | 1893-1956 |
![]() | Leigh, Vivien | UK actress | 1913-1967 |
![]() | Lloyd George, David | UK politician | 1863-1945 |
![]() | Maze, Paul | French artist | 1887-1979 |
![]() | Murrow, Ed | US broadcaster | 1908-1965 |
![]() | Onassis, Aristotle | Greek businessman | 1906-1975 |
![]() | Plowden, Pamela | UK aristocrat | 1874-1971 |
![]() | Pol-Roger, Odette | French businesswoman | 1911-2000 |
![]() | Reves, Emery | UK publisher | 1904-1981 |
![]() | Roosevelt, Franklin D. | US politician | 1882-1945 |
![]() | Rothermere, Lord (Harold Harmsworth) | UK publisher | 1868-1940 |
![]() | Sassoon, Philip | UK socialite, politician | 1888-1939 |
![]() | Sickert, Walter | UK artist | 1860-1942 |
![]() | Smuts, Jan | South African military leader, politician | 1870-1950 |
![]() | Truman, Harry | US politician | 1884-1972 |
![]() | Wells, H.G. | UK writer | 1866-1946 |
See also
- Introduction to friends
- Main menu (at the top of this page)