Diana Churchill Diana Churchill Diana Spencer-Churchill (11 July 1909 – 20 October 1963) was the eldest daughter of British statesman Sir Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier). She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she spent five terms, without any real intention to become an actress. On 12 December 1932, she married John Milner Bailey (15 June 1900 East Grinstead – 13 February 1946 Cape Town, South Africa) (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,
Honours of Winston Churchill The launch and christening of the ship two years earlier was co-sponsored by Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames. In addition, the Danish DFDS line named a car ferry "Winston Churchill" and The Corporation of Trinity House named one of their lighthouse tenders similarly. A sail training ship was named "Sir Winston Churchill". In September 1947, the Southern Railway named a Battle of Britain class steam locomotive No. 21C151 after him. Churchill was offered the opportunity to perform the naming ceremony, but he declined. The locomotive was later used to pull his funeral train, and is now preserved in the National Railway