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The Netflix docuseries Churchill At War, explores his role as leader during World War II, his time as the British Prime Minister and his relationships with his wife and children. During his life as a public figure and leader during the war, Churchill was married to his wife, Clementine, the daughter of Sir Henry Hozier and Lady Blanche Ogilvy. Despite the heavy demands of public life, as seen in the Netflix docuseries and other depictions of Churchill in TV and movies, their marriage was close, and they remained together until Churchill's death in 1965.

Winston Churchill first met his wife, Clementine, in 1904, but they didn't officially begin a relationship until 1908. Churchill proposed to Clementine at a party at Blenheim Place in August 1908, and they married on September 12, 1908. During his time as British Prime Minister during the war, Churchill was heavily supported by his wife, who served in various organizations supporting veterans in war.

'Henry V' Movie Actress Renée Asherson dead at 99: Laurence Olivier leading lady in acclaimed 1944 film (image: Renée Asherson and Laurence Olivier in 'Henry V') Renée Asherson, a British stage actress featured in London productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Three Sisters, but best known internationally as Laurence Olivier's leading lady in the 1944 film version of Henry V, died on October 30, 2014. Asherson was 99 years old. The exact cause of death hasn't been specified. She was born Dorothy Renée Ascherson (she would drop the "c" some time after becoming an actress) on May 19, 1915, in Kensington, London, to Jewish parents: businessman Charles Ascherson and his second wife, Dorothy Wiseman -- both of whom narrowly escaped spending their honeymoon aboard the Titanic. (Ascherson cancelled the voyage after suffering an attack of appendicitis.) According to Michael Coveney's The Guardian obit for the actress, Renée Asherson was "scantly...

It is one of Beckett's most famous – and most startling – images. But what inspired the half-buried woman in Happy Days? His friend and biographer James Knowlson tracks down the first Winnies

Samuel Beckett was a passionate lover of art and a friend of many painters and sculptors. He loved Dutch and Flemish painting in particular – and art almost certainly inspired some of his most memorable theatrical images. Even his earliest plays, such as Waiting for Godot or Endgame, recall the old masters: the character Lucky in Godot may well remind you of a Brueghel grotesque; Estragon and Vladimir's physical antics echo scenes in Adriaen Brouwer's paintings ("Dear, dear Brouwer", Beckett called him); Hamm in Endgame appears to share genes with some portraits by Rembrandt, staring out at the viewer – Jacob Trip in his armchair, perhaps.

As for Beckett's late miniature works – recently revived by the Royal Court with a tour...