This indeed is a story until now untold. With many books about FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins and Winston Churchill, we never encountered the important, perhaps essential role, of Mrs. Churchill.
Here is the New York Times book review of her recent biography.
Incidentally, if Hopkins was “cosseted”, he needed it. The man was hanging on to life with a partial stomach and by a string throughout the Second World War, enduring untold stresses and even hardships (like his flight to Moscow on a unheated bomber) in his role as President Franklin Roosevelt’s most influential advisor and trusted messenger.
