Lady Randy.

An hour ago, I watched the 'Lady Randy, Churchill's mother', documentary film, which was broadcasted on Channel 4, at 21.00hrs on Tuesday 11th November 2008. Funnily enough, at 7pm on Tuesday 11th November, I had attended a lecture by Professor Geoffrey Best, titled 'Churchill's Women'. The lecture was publicised thus:

"Throughout his life Churchill depended on the support of a series of strong and interesting women: nurse, mother, wife, daughters, secretaries and dear friends. Professor Geoffrey Best discusses the nature of these relationships and the paradox that, though he evidently needed the cosseting of these women to such an extent that he could not have lived without them, in his public life they seem to have mattered to him not at all."

I found this lecture by Professor Geoffrey Best, who is described as "one of Britain's most distinguished historians. His many books include War and Law since 1945, Humanity in Warfare and Mid-Victorian Britain. He has been Professor of History at the Universities of Edinburgh and Sussex, and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard and Chicago. He is currently a Senior Member of St Antony's College, Oxford." Engaging, insightful and helpful.

I was extremely pleased when Professor Geoffrey Best, autographed his book 'Churchill' a study of Greatness, for my son.