Not Their Finest Hour ; Arabella Churchill Was the Apple of Her Grandfather Winston's Eye. Now She Lives the Life of an Eccentric Hippy ... And Her Son Stands Accused of Running a Pounds 5million Drugs Ring. What Would the Great Man Say?

Daily Mail › October 14, 2006

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THE day was lovely, an emotional mixture of tears and laughter, and for Arabella Churchill it was worth everything to fly to Australia to be at her son Jake Barton's wedding. It was the moment for which Sir Winston Churchill's favourite grandchild had long been waiting - the day that Jake, 33, whom she had cheerfully hauled as a baby through squats and hippie communes, was finally settling down.

Arabella remembers waving goodbye to him and 'my beautiful new daughter-in-law' Kim as she and her husband drove away from the ocean-side resort of Byron Bay towards Brisbane airport.

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Not Their Finest Hour ; Arabella Churchill Was the Apple of Her Grandfather Winston's Eye. Now She Lives the Life of an Eccentric Hippy ... And Her Son Stands Accused of Running a Pounds 5million Drugs Ring. What Would the Great Man Say?

'The thought of more air travel and jet lag appalled me, but we love Jake and Kim dearly, so Haggis (her second husband, a juggler) and I really felt we had to be at their wedding,' she wrote afterwards in a website diary.

Perhaps the next piece of family news would be about a baby, her own first grandchild?

When important news came, though, it was anything but joyous. Jake's beachside home had been raided by New South Wales police and he was in custody accused of running ...

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