A more intimate insight into the life of former Prime Minister and war-time leader Winston Churchill was portrayed by the Channel 5 documentary Secrets of the National Trust last night.

Presenter Alan Titchmarsh interviewed Churchill's granddaughter Celia Sandys, who spoke of her fond memories of family meals in the dining room at Chartwell, Churchill's Kent home in Westerham, but who also revealed that she thought he had been "a difficult man" for her grandmother Clementine to be married to.

She said: "I mean, everything centred around him and she was someone who was very highly strung."

"So, she found life quite a strain because he was racing through life and everything was going at full speed."

Mrs Sandys, 76, said: "He was once described as a young man in a hurry but he was a man in a hurry all his life and he was always pursuing his destiny, which of course came rather late."

The programme took the audience on a tour of Chartwell showing the great man's study, where he would write his speeches, and his studio, where he liked to relax with painting.

It also toured Churchill's wartime command tunnels at Dover.

Winston and Clementine Churchill were married on September 12, 1908.

Mrs Sandys is the daughter of the couple's eldest child Diana.

If you missed last night's broadcast, you can watch it on the My5 catch-up service.

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