Why should readers today be interested in Sarahs life, aside from the entertainment value?
While more than three hundred years separate Sarah Churchill from the modern world, she faced many of the same challenges as women today. She balanced her career with her husband and family. She was a “self-made” woman, rising from near-poverty to great power and wealth. For forty years, she managed a complicated relationship with Anne Stuart, the lonely princess who would become queen, and maintain one of the most complex friendships in history between two women before Sarah’s own personality finally forced it to implode. Equally fascinating is Sarah’s marriage to John Churchill. From the time she was fifteen, he remained the only man and the one love in her long life, and their ability to balance their careers and support one another’s goals is as unusual now as it was then. Both were beautiful, charming, and ambitious, famously loyal to one another and to no one else, cheered in the London streets yet vilified as traitors to the Crown they served: is there any doubt that John and Sa
