Mary Soames


The Lady Soames

Soames in 1965
BornMary Spencer Churchill
(1922-09-15)15 September 1922
London, England
Died31 May 2014(2014-05-31) (aged 91)
London, England
BuriedSt Martin's Church, Bladon
NationalityBritish
Noble familySpencer-Churchill
Spouse(s)
(m. 1947; died 1987)
Issue
FatherWinston Churchill
MotherClementine Hozier

Mary Soames, Baroness Soames (née Spencer Churchill; 15 September 1922  31 May 2014) was an English author. The youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, she worked for public organisations including the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service from 1939 to 1941, and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941. She was the wife of Conservative politician Christopher Soames.