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. Personal life. She attended Notting Hill High School and then the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she spent five terms, although her focus was not on acting. On 12 December 1932, she 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 she changed her name by deed poll back to Diana Churchill. Children. With Duncan Sandys she had three children: Military service. She was an officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service during the Second World War. Health issues and suicide. Diana had several nervous breakdowns. In 1962, she began working with the Samaritans, an organisation created for the prevention of suicide. In 1963, she died, aged 54, from an overdose of barbiturates. A coroner  later concluded that the death was a suicide. She is buried with her parents (who both outlived her) and three of her siblings (Marigold is interred in Kensal Green Cemetery in London) at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire.