Death
In May 1921, while Montagu Porch was away in Africa, Jennie slipped while coming down a friend's staircase wearing new high-heeled shoes, breaking her ankle. Gangrene set in, and her left leg was amputated above the knee on 10th June. She died at her home in London on 29th June, following a haemorrhage of an artery in her thigh (resulting from the amputation). She was 67 years old.
She was buried in the Churchill family plot at St Martin's Church, Bladon, Oxfordshire, next to her first husband.
Read more about this topic: Lady Randolph Churchill
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