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Cecily Gemmell, Winston Churchill’s Last Surviving Secretary, Has Died

Published by New York Times World By Barry Singer · 8 October 2026 at 23:11
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Starting with the British leader at age 18, she traveled the world with him. “I was terrified of him,” she later recalled.

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