turns out Helena botom Carter has a very famous grandmother this is violet botom Carter who was a fearlessly outspoken feminist and politician as the daughter of prime minister HH aswith and the closest female friend of Winston Churchill it wasn't long before she formed strong political opinions and sometimes they got her into deep trouble by the end of World War I Violet already knew that there was trouble on the horizon she was especially worried about the Treaty of versai and its extreme punishment of Germany she even gave a warning saying it may have far-reaching into disastrous International consequences for which our children and the children of the world will have to pay when World War II inevitably hit she staunchly opposed appeasing Germany and expressed her horror and indignation her confident criticisms managed to rub one leader the wrong way Adolf Hitler himself in fact he even put Violet's name down in the black book which was a secret list of important British people that he wanted to imprison