29-04-2025
Winston Churchill's bachelor pad is on sale for £3.75m
When Winston Churchill moved into 105 Mount Street, a luxury mansion block apartment owned by his cousin Charles 'Sunny' Spencer-Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough, the 26-year-old was already regarded as a Victorian war hero and a successful author.
Having recently returned from the Boer War, during which he escaped imprisonment and returned to fight bravely for six months, Churchill arrived in Mayfair in August 1900 determined to launch his political career (with plenty of society partying with the ladies of the English establishment along the way).
He moved into the one-bedroom flat with its own dining room in the block, which was designed in 1888 by the architect Sir Ernest George in an early Renaissance style, and employed his own cook. Despite this he
