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In 1874 he left the army to join Lloyd’s of London, where he made another brilliant career in particular, he was one of the first to realise the possibilities of radiotelegraphy, and was the driving force behind Lloyd’s creation of a linking network of telegraphic stations. He wrote widely on all the campaigns in which he fought or observed, and he was a pioneer of the intelligence service. He was not a rich man, but his family, although of humble origins (originally the family name was MacLehose, changed in a groan-inducing pun to Hozier), was now substantial and respected, he was a close friend of Blanche’s mother, and he had had a brilliant military career. He was forty and she only twenty-six when they married in 1878. Read moreĮsmond ONE His mother’s side: The HoziersĪ few months after his first wife divorced him for adultery Sir Henry Montague Hozier (1838–1907) married Lady Blanche Ogilvy, and soon that marriage too fell apart. A distinguished author, she tells the story of a remarkable era.

Meredith Whitford's ground-breaking book uses previous unpublished documents and family sources and is essential reading. They had only had four brief, tempestuous and loving years together. With war ever approaching, Esmond trained to fly and was killed in active service with Bomber Command. After three months of family opposition, they were finally married.

In 1937, when Esmond was 18 and Jessica 19 they met and fell madly in love and, scandalously, ran away together to the Communist Front in Spain.

Her sister Unity went to Germany and became very close to Hitler, while Diana married Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. Jessica Mitford, was one of the notorious Mitford girls – always known as Decca – and grew up in a life of Downton Abbey aristocratic privilege. Churchill's Rebels is a heart-braking story of two young people madly in love and in open rebellion against their up-bringing and a way of life.Įsmond Romilly was the nephew of Winston Churchill, a rebel against his family and public school who left England to fight for the rebels in the Spanish Civil War.