From Strasbourg, [74 year old] Churchill went south to the French Riviera, where,...helped by Denis Kelly, he was to resume work...on his war memoirs...The film star Merle Oberon was also a guest;...Churchill, suitably attired, turned somersaults in the sea to amuse her. Kelly later recalled how "as we sat afterwards drinking dry martinis in our towels he suddenly...looked at my skinny body and grunted, "Denis, you're a disgrace to the British Empire."