On 12 December 1932, Churchill married John Milner Bailey (15 June 1900 East Grinstead – 13 February 1946 Cape Town, South Africa), who became the Bailey baronet Sir John Milner Bailey, 2nd Bt, but the marriage was unsuccessful and they divorced in 1935. On 16 September 1935, she married the Conservative politician Duncan Sandys (later life peer Lord Duncan-Sandys). They had three children together and divorced in 1960.
In 1962, Churchill changed her name by deed poll back to Diana Spencer Churchill.[4][5]
Children
With Duncan Sandys she had three children:
The Honourable Julian Sandys (19 September 1936 – 15 August 1997). He married Elisabeth Martin in 1970. They had four children:
Lucy Diana Sandys (born 1971); she married David Pite in 2007. They have two children.
Duncan John Winston Sandys (b. 1973); he married Mary Brown C. Brewer and divorced in 2016. They have one son.
Jonathan Martin Edwin Sandys (1975–2018); he married Sara Hill in 2009. They had two children, who are the first descendants of Sir Winston Churchill to be born in the United States (Texas).[6]
Roderick Julian Frederick Sandys (1977 – 9 December 2007)
The Honourable Edwina Sandys (b. 29 December 1938);[7] she married Piers Dixon in 1960 and divorced in 1973. They had two sons. She married Richard D. Kaplan in 1985.
The Honourable Celia Sandys (b. 18 May 1943); she married Michael Kennedy in 1965 and divorced in 1970. They have one son. She married Sir Dennis Walters in 1970 and divorced in 1979. They have one son. She married Maj.-Gen. Kenneth Perkins in 1985. They have two children.
Churchill had several nervous breakdowns. In 1962, she began working with the Samaritans, an organisation created for the prevention of suicide.[8] On 20 October 1963, she died at 58 Chester Row, Westminster, S.W.1, leaving an estate valued at £59,259.[9] The cause of death was an overdose of barbiturates, and a coroner later concluded that it was a case of suicide.[8] She is buried with her parents (who both outlived her) and her siblings (Marigold originally was interred in a tomb at Kensal Green Cemetery in London, but her remains were relocated in 2019 to join the rest of her family) at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
^Lovell, Mary S. (2012). "1932-7 Changes at Blenheim". The Churchills: a family at the heart of history – from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill. London: Abacus. ISBN9780349119786.
^Lovell, Mary S. (2012). "1938-9 Towards Armageddon". The Churchills: a family at the heart of history – from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill. London: Abacus. p. 401. ISBN9780349119786. The year 1938 was a bad one for Clementine's health... Again, Winston was too busy to join her. He wrote to her on 19 December... Ten days later Diana gave prematurely and easily to a baby daughter whom she called Edwina. 'The baby is tiny but perfect,' Winston reported, 'and by my latest news, thriving.'
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