Around this time, Jennie became well known for chartering the hospital ship RFA Maine to care for those wounded in the Second Boer War, for which she was awarded the decoration of the Royal Red Cross (RRC) in the South Africa Honours list published on 26 June 1902.[23] She received the decoration in person from King Edward VII on 2 October that year, during a visit to Balmoral Castle.[24] In 1908, she wrote her memoirs The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill.