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Sir Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames (born 12 February 1948) is a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Mid Sussex. He is a grandson of the former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Soames is a former Defence minister having served in the government of John Major (1994–97). His main political interests are defence, international relations, rural affairs and industry. He is also chairman of the private security contractor Aegis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=www.aegisworld.com )〕 ==Personal life== Soames was born in Croydon and is a grandson of the British wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, the son of Lord and Lady Soames, and a great-nephew of the founders of the Scout movement, Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell. His brother is the industrialist Rupert Soames. Simon Hoggart, writing in ''The Guardian'', relates an anecdote of Soames' childhood: 'He gave me the true version of what I had always suspected was an apocryphal story. In or around 1953, when Soames was five, he didn't know how important his grandfather was until someone told him. So he walked up to the old man's bedroom, managed to get past the valets and the secretaries, and found him sitting up in bed. "Is it true, grandpapa, that you are the greatest man in the world?" he asked. "Yes I am," said Churchill. "Now bugger off."'〔()'Hats off to Soames, Off Message but on Majestic Form', The Guardian, 4 June 2001〕 He has been married twice. His first marriage (4 June 1981 – 1988) was to Catherine Weatherall (the sister of Isobel Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne), by whom he has one son, Harry Soames. He married, secondly, Serena Smith (a niece of the Duchess of Grafton) on 21 December 1993. They have a daughter, Isabella, and a son, Christopher. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Soames」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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