Antecedents
Lady Avon was the daughter of Major Jack Spencer-Churchill (1880–1947), the younger brother of Winston Churchill, and Lady Gwendoline ("Goonie") Bertie (1885–1941), daughter of the 7th Earl of Abingdon, who married in 1908. She is thus the niece of Winston Churchill, who was Prime Minister during the Second World War (1940–5) and from 1951–5, and granddaughter of Lord Randolph Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1886-7, and the American society beauty Jenny Jerome. Her paternal great-grandfather was the 7th Duke of Marlborough; her maternal great-great-grandfather was the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, half-brother of the 2nd Marquess, who, as Viscount Castlereagh, was Foreign Secretary during the Congress of Vienna (1815) that followed the Napoleonic Wars.
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