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    May 02, 2019 6 minutes
    MICHAEL McMENAMIN’S

    125 YEARS AGO Spring 1894 • Age 19 “I Would Not Believe You Could Be Such a Young Stupid”

    Despite now being a Gentleman Cadet at Sandhurst, Churchill received a number of critical letters from his parents reminiscent of those he received at a much earlier age. On 10 April he wrote his mother Lady Randolph: “I want to come up on Saturday. I can’t endure two Sundays running at this place. All my friends are going away and one cannot work the whole time. I beg you to try and explain things to Papa should he disapprove.”

    Papa, Lord Randolph, very much disapproved and wrote to his son on 13 April, “[As for] announcing your intention of coming up to town on Saturday…to this I particularly object. You have been just one day over a week at Sandhurst & you get restless & want to get away….Now it is no use telling me there is nothing to do on Sunday, because

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