She was Sir Winston Churchill's closest female friend, apart from his wife, and her grandchildren include the actress Helena Bonham Carter.
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE (15 April 1887 ? 19 February 1969), known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908?1916, and later became active in Liberal politics hers