Diana is left bereft after suddenly losing her father to Covid-19. She discusses the new funeral etiquette in this week's column My paternal grandmother was born Violet Quicke.
I was always told that her family, whose chief claim to fame these days is as makers of excellent cheddar cheese, had lived on the same estate at Newton St Cyres, near Exeter, since before the Norman Conquest.
Whether or not that is actually the case, I couldn’t say. But they certainly had been stalwarts of Devon society for a very long time, and Grandma had a strong sense of her own genealogy.
Dad was christened David Churchill because Grandma was distantly related to the Churchill family, Winston included. And I still have Penrose as my third name after another
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