and Soviet Union during World War II to defeat the Axis powers and craft postwar peace. After becoming prime minister in 1940, Churchill helped lead a successful Allied strategy with the U.S. I think the OP is right that if Winston Churchill became Lord Marlborough in 1890, his chances of getting the Premiership shrink dramatically, though it is still possible.Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician, military officer and writer who served as the prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. He stood up, walked to the window, and said not a word in response.īack to the question, it likely depends on when it happens. In the event, Churchill took the surprise third option. "Yes." In this case, very likely, Chamberlain would have chided Churchill on his obvious self-service, and attacked him for it in the Commons to harm his prospects. "No." In this case, Chamberlain would likely have said that he would be happy to recommend Lord Halifax to His Majesty upon his own resignation.Ģ). His intent was almost certainly to leave Churchill with two possible answers.ġ). As I recall there is a story of a meeting which took place between the three, in which Chamberlain, trying to sound casual, asked Churchill if he thought there was anything especially wrong with the idea of a Peer as Prime Minister in 1940.
10 when it became apparent that his position there was untenable. Neville Chamberlain openly wanted Lord Halifax, also known as Edward Wood, to succeed him in No. How does that affect his leadership of Britain, his relations with FDR, his image in the U.S.? The first duke was a great general, and I could see the linkage being a positive but the heavy aristocratic associations would hurt, too. His younger brother John is available to inherit the title, and after 1911 Winston's son Randolph. Note: Churchill's personal recklessness (serving on the Western Front of WW I, playing polo into his 40s) probably is not constrained by this. Charles lives until 1941 or so, and Winston becomes Duke while PM.Winston succeds in the 1930s, which would take him from Commons and somewhat disqualify him from Prime Minister.How does this influence his political career? Winston remains the heir presumptive through the 1900s and into the 1930s.After 1900, the action was in the Commons peers still had a role to play, but it diminished rapidly. This would largely abort his political career. Charles dies young, and Winston succeeds in the 1890s.If Charles had not begotten a son, he would remain heir presumptive, and would have succeeded as Duke when Charles died (1934 in OTL, aged 63). Thus for two years, Winston was heir presumptive to the Dukedom. (Consuelo called them "The heir and the spare".)
Charles succeeded as the 9th Duke in 1892.Ĭharles was unmarried, so his heir presumptive was his uncle Randolph, and after Randolph's death in 1895, his cousin Winston.Ĭharles married American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt in 1895 their first son was born in 1897 and their second son in 1898. His uncle George was the 8th Duke, and his first cousin Charles was the 8th Duke's only son. His father Randolph was the 7th Duke's second son. Winston Churchill was descended from John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough.
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