The Archive · 1908

Winston Churchill ty Miss Clementine

Horier, daughter of the late Sir Henry Horier, fcr meoy years Secretary of Lloyd's. Ever since the engagement became known the photographers attached to the illustrated papers have been following Miss Huzier about and snapshotting he", anc one enterprising journal has obtained possession of photographs of the Indy from the age of four. The marriage will, it is stated, take place on the 15th of next month, jost in tim: to allow of a bare honeymoon before the President of the Board of Trade resunes his Parliamentary duties. Miss Hoaier's wes, 703 seventh Earl of Airlie, while her paternal uncle was the first Lord Newlands. She is said to be an accomplished linguist end musician; her claims, to beauty are unquestionable; and there is no doubt that she will grace the position of wife of the Prime Minister of England, to which she may look with confident hope. There has been quite an epidemic of marriages among the present Goveroment. Mr. Churchill will be the third Cabinet Minister to go to the altar since the General Election, and one subordinate member of the Government, Mr. Masterman, has also got married. The only bachelor now left in the Cabinet is Mr. Haldane, and he is fifty-two years old; bat there are three widowers, and among those outside the Cabinet there is one very eligible parti in Lord Lucas, the son of the late Mr. Auberon Herbert.

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