Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome grey plaque

This grey commemorative plaque records: Rosetta Cottage. Lies the other of this road and here, in Cowes week 1873, Lord Randolph Churchill first met and proposed to Jennie Jerome, eldest daughter of American Leonard Jerome, then proprietor of The New York Times. Their marriage bore them their first son Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 30th November 1874.

Lord Randolph Churchill was a prominent British politician and the father of Winston Churchill; Jennie Jerome, an American socialite, was his wife. Their relationship and subsequent marriage in 1874 led to the birth of their son Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, who would become one of the most significant political figures of the 20th century, serving as Prime Minister during World War II.