As a footnote to history, some may know that the great British leader, Winston Churchill, had an American mother. Almost none though know of the love story of Lord Randolph age 24 and Miss Jerome age 19 in it being a matter of love at first sight.
The scene was the Russian royals had come to England for a visit, so all society was engaged in the drama of the gathering.
Sir Winston fills in the romance:
Here for the first time he met Miss Jerome, an American girl whose singular beauty and gifted vivacity had excited general attention. He was presented to her by a common friend.
Waltzing made him giddy and he detested dancing of all kinds, so after a formal quadrell they sat and talked.
That very night Miss Jerome told her laughing and incredulous sister of a presentiment that their new friend was the man she would marry; and Lord Randolph confided to Colonel Edgecumbe, who was of the party, that he admired the two sisters and meant, if he could, to make ‘the dark one’ his wife.
Next day they met again ‘by accident’—so runs the account I have received— and went for a walk. That evening he was once more a guest at Rosetta Cottage.
That night—the third of their acquaintance— was a beautiful night, warm and still, with the lights of the yachts shining on the water and the sky bright with stars. After dinner they found themselves alone together in the garden, and— brief court-ship notwithstanding— he proposed and was accepted. So far as the principals were concerned, everything was thus easily and swiftly settled, and the matter having become so earnest all further meetings were suspended until the Duke of Marlborough and Mr. Jerome, who was in America , had been consulted.
Winston Churchill. Lord Randolph Churchill
An amazing romance, in it was love at first sight in both knew they were going to marry each other.
The problem was the families both not approving......they were married all the same.
nuff said.
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