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Cara Delevingne’s aunt had an affair with Winston Churchill AND his son
Newly unearthed tapes confirm long-standing rumours about our wartime leader's infidelity
SIR Winston Churchill cheated on wife Clementine with model Cara Delevingne’s great-aunt, archive tapes confirm.
The war leader — subject of hit movie Darkest Hour — had a four-year fling with Doris Castlerosse.
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Married sexpot Doris, famed for a sex trick she called Cleopatra’s Grip, had an earlier affair with his son Randolph.
Her romance with Sir Winston began in 1933 in the south of France, where they spent summers together.
His aide John Colville revealed in a newly discovered 1985 tape: “He did one terrible thing.
"He wasn’t highly sexed and I don’t think he slipped up, except once — an affair with Doris Castlerosse.”
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She later moved to the US, taking a portrait that Sir Winston painted of her.
In 1942, when she was broke, the war leader feared it could be used to blackmail him.
So got her to return to the UK with it.
After she died of an overdose in London that year, another of his aides retrieved it from her family.
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Clementine, who had a 1934 affair, only learnt of her hubby’s infidelity in the early 1960s.
He died in 1965 at 90 and his wife 12 years later aged 92.
CHURCHILL’S Secret Affair is on Channel 4 next Sunday at 8pm.
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