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The Right Honourable,
The Lady Soames, LG, DBE

Lady Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, LG, DBE, is the youngest of Sir Winston and Lady Clementine Churchill's five children.

Lady Soames worked for the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service between 1939 and 1941 and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service with whom she served in London, Belgium and Germany in mixed anti-aircraft batteries, rising to the rank of Junior Commander.

Lady Soames accompanied her father as aide-de-camp on several of his overseas journeys, including his post-VE trip to Potsdam, where he met with Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin.

Lady Soames has served many public organisations, such as the International Churchill Society, as a Patron; Church Army and Churchill Houses; and has chaired the Royal National Theatre.

Lady Soames was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her public service, particularly in Rhodesia.

In 2005, Lady Soames was appointed a Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter, and was invested on 13 June that year at Windsor Castle.

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