An urban legend has floated around the Internet for years claiming Brother Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room at a dance. It isn't true, but hearing the circumstances of his birth, one can see how the rumor got started. Churchill's mother, Jennie, was attending a dance at Blenheim Palace when she went into labor. She was removed to a "singularly bleak-looking bedroom" which was temporarily being used to store coats (hence, folklore seems to have translated "cloakroom," into "ladies' room"). There, 24 hours after the dance had ended, Winston was born.
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