16/07/2026
Lady R.Churchill la madre del Primo Ministro con cui la nostra Wilma non disdegnava suonare
"I remember his defending me in some trivial
case in the* County Court, and winning it; the appearance of a Queen's Counsel in silk gown and wig creating a sensation. Randolph accompanied us, and we drove away in a four-wheeler, feeling very triumphant until the wheel came off, and we were ignominiously pre- cipitated into the street.
Sir John had a music-loving soul, and many were the occasions when he and I and Arthur Balfour went off to
the "Monday Pops," to listen to the sweet strains of Joachim and Norman Neruda. My fashionable and
frivolous friends, spying the three of us walking together, often teased me about my "weird" companions, one solemn with beard and eye-glass, the other esthetic
with long hair and huge spats. Mr. Balfour's knowledge of music was remarkable, considering the little time he was able to devote to it, and he was no mean performer at the piano, reading and playing classical music. We often played Beethoven or Schumann together.
