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Location
Rosetta Cottage, Queens Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight See map on www.streetmap.co.uk Description A slate plaque marking the meeting place of Lord Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome in 1873 Installed in 2004 |
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Memorial
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Inscription
ROSETTA COTTAGE Lies the other side of the road and here, in in Cowes week 1873, Lord Randolph Churchill first met and proposed to Jennie Jerome, eldest daughter of American Leonard Jerome, then proprietor of The "New York Times" Their marriage bore them their first son Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill on 30th November 1874 |