Sarah Churchill (daughter of Winston Churchill)

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Sarah Churchill

Sarah Churchill in Royal Wedding (1951).
Born Sarah Millicent Hermione Churchill
7 October 1914(1914-10-07)
London, England
Died 24 September 1982 (aged 67)
London, England

Sarah Millicent Hermione Tuchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley (née Churchill) (7 October 1914 – 24 September 1982), was a British actress and dancer.

She was born in London, England, the second daughter of future Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill: she was the third of the couple's five children. Sarah was named after Churchill's ancestor, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough.

Sarah Spencer-Churchill married three times:

  1. Victor Oliver von Samek (1936-1945) (divorced)
  2. Anthony Beauchamp (1949-1957) (widowed)
  3. Henry Tuchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley (1962-1963) (widowed)

She is fondly remembered for her role in the film Royal Wedding (1951) as Anne Ashmond, starring opposite Fred Astaire. In the same year, she had her own television show. She also appeared in He Found a Star (1941), All Over The Town (1949), Fabian of the Yard (1954) and Serious Charge (1959).

Baroness Audley died at 67, she is buried with her parents and siblings at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

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