How well do you know Randolph Churchill

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The Life of Randolph Churchill, Son of Winston Churchill

Randolph Churchill was an English journalist, writer, soldier, and politician.
He served as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Preston from 1940 to 1945.
He was the only son of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and his wife, Baroness Spencer-Churchill.
Randolph Churchill wrote the first two volumes of the official life of his father, complemented by an extensive archive of materials.
His first wife was Pamela Digby, and their son, Winston, followed his father into Parliament.
Randolph Churchill was born in London in 1911 and was nicknamed "the Chumbolly" by his parents before he was born.
He and his older sister Diana had to be escorted by plainclothes detectives on their walks in the park due to threats by suffragettes to kidnap them.
Randolph Churchill had a problem with authority and discipline and was reported by his headmaster as "very combative".
Winston Churchill visited his son at prep school as often as possible, having been neglected by his own parents as a small boy.
As a child, Randolph Churchill was sexually abused by a junior prep school master, which led to his father demanding the teacher's dismissal.
He attended Eton College, where he was lazy and unsuccessful both at work and games and once received a beating from his house's Captain of Games for being "bloody awful all round".
As a teenager, Randolph Churchill fell in love with Diana Mitford, sister of his friend Tom Mitford, and was wrongly suspected by his housemaster of being in a homosexual relationship with Tom.