イギリスの5ポンド紙幣に登場したウィンストン・チャーチル、その知られざる5つの真実

チャーチルのあまり知られていない5つの事実をご紹介しよう。
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プラスチック製の新5ポンド紙幣。

イギリスでは9月13日から、プラスチック製の新5ポンド札の流通が始まった。

プラスチックの新札は破れにくく、水や汚れにも強くて偽造が難しい。イングランド銀行のマーク・カーニー総裁がロンドンの屋台でカレーの鍋に新札を浸しても大丈夫だった。

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新札の表面はこれまでと同じくエリザベス女王。裏面は19世紀の女性社会活動家エリザベス・フライから新たにウィンストン・チャーチル元首相に変わった。

総理大臣、英雄軍人、著名な雄弁家。ウィンストン・チャーチルはさまざまな歴史の場面で記憶されているが、その輝かしいリストに、新5ポンド札の顔という栄誉がもう一つ加わった。

ここに敬意を表し、チャーチルのあまり知られていない5つの事実をご紹介しよう。

1.アメリカ合衆国の名誉市民に初めて選ばれた。

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1952年1月5日、チャーチル首相(左)とアメリカのハリー・トルーマン大統領がワシントンD.Cでヨット「ウィリアムズバーグ号」に乗る

1963年、チャーチルは初めてアメリカ合衆国の名誉市民となった。当時のジョン・F・ケネディ大統領から与えられた。合衆国の名誉市民にはこれまで、ペンシルベニア植民地を建設したウィリアム・ペンやマザー・テレサなど、7人に授与されている。そのうち、生前に授与されたはチャーチルとマザー・テレサだけだ。

2. チャーチルが描いた絵画は数百万ポンドの値がつく

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カイロのピラミッド。

チャーチルは多数の絵画と著作を残し、1953年には「チャーチル本人の、あるいは彼の執筆した歴史的伝記的描写の完成度や人間の高貴なる価値観を擁護する優れた叙述」によりノーベル文学賞を受賞した。

チャーチルは、鬱々とした政治の出来事から逃れ、自分の文学・芸術作品の中に安息の地を見出していたのだった。

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「チャートウェルの金魚の池」。

2014年、上記の絵画「チャートウェルの金魚の池」は180万ポンド(約2億4500万円)という巨額で競り落とされている。

3. 「鉄のカーテン」という言葉を生んだのは彼ではない。

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1946年3月5日、フルトンのウェストミンスター大学で講演するチャーチル

この言葉は第2次世界大戦終結(写真上)の年に、東欧にソビエト連邦の影響力が拡大することにについて懸念を表明するチャーチルのスピーチからのものとされる説が多い。しかし、この言葉はナチス政権の宣伝相ジョセフ・ゲッベルスがドイツ敗戦直前に書いた論文のなかですでに使っている。

1945年2月5日の号で、ゲッベルスは以下のように書いている。

「もしもドイツ国民が武器を置けば、ルーズベルト、チャーチル、スターリンの間での協定(ヤルタ会談)通り、ソビエト連邦はライヒの大半と東ヨーロッパ・東南ヨーロッパ全域を占領することになる。この膨大な領土には鉄のカーテンが下ろされ、ソビエト連邦に支配され、カーテンの陰では配下の国々が皆殺しになるだろう。ロンドンとニューヨークのユダヤ系報道機関はそれでもなお拍手喝采していることだろう」

4. 発話障害だった。

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1944年、アルバートホールにてアブラハム・リンカーンの大きな写真を前に演説する。

歴史に名を残す最も優れた雄弁家とされているにもかかわらず、チャーチルは幼少時代ずっと舌足らずな話し方だった。

チャーチルが捕虜収容所から逃亡した時(5番目を参照)、チャーチルの捕獲者たちが彼の釈放を求めて提出した通知書にはこう書かれていた「長時間にわたる会話の間、彼は度々喉の中でガラガラと音をさせる」

チャーチルは1897年、発話障害を克服するため、著名なセラピスト、フェリックス・シーモン卿に助けを求めた。シーモン卿は後日こう語ったと言われている。「未だかつて会ったことがない極めて風変わりな青年に出会いました」

5. 捕虜収容所から逃亡した。

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ボーア戦争中モーニング・ポスト紙の戦争取材員として南アフリカにいたチャーチル。

チャーチルはさまざまな職業を経験したが、彼は収入を補う手段としてさまざまな出版社の戦争取材記者を務めていた。

1899年にオールダム選挙区から国会議員に立候補したが落選したチャーチルは、南アフリカでオランダ系住民(ボーア人)と植民地争いをした第2次ボーア戦争の取材を委託され、月給250ポンドというかなりの高給を稼いだ。当時の250ポンドは、今日の貨幣価値で2万9000ポンド(約395万円)に相当する。

取材遠征のために武装列車で移動中、ボーア人の奇襲部隊が線路に岩石を置き、衝突した汽車に火を放った。

当時25歳だったチャーチルは捕虜となり、捕虜収容所に抑留された。

チャーチルは他人から命令されるタイプの人間ではない。彼は1週間後、壁を飛び越えて逃亡した。「昼間は隠れ、夜間に歩き、食べ物を盗み、小川の水を飲み、貨物列車にこっそり乗せてもらいながら」モザンビークまでたどり着いた。

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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965) aged 7, later British statesman and prime minister. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Photographs of Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman. Churchill, aged 4, full-length, standing, held by his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill. Churchill at 12, in uniform of Harrow School, England. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) (credit:UniversalImagesGroup via Getty Images)
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UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: A photograph of the CHURCHILL\'s : from right to left, Winston CHURCHILL when aged about 10, Jennie, his mother and wife a Lord Randolph, a Conservative politician, and his younger brother Jack CHURCHILL. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) (credit:Keystone-France via Getty Images)
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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1800: Winston S. Churchill 1874 to 1965 as Second Lieutenant in the 4th Queen\'s Own Hussars from A Roving Commission by Winston S. Churchill published by Scribners 1930 (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) (credit:UniversalImagesGroup via Getty Images)
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Winston Churchill (1874-1965), as a young man. Ca. 1900 (credit:Rex)
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1904: English statesman Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965), shortly after he deserted Balfour\'s Conservative and Unionist Party to become a Liberal, over the Tariff Reform Question. Behind him is a picture of Lord Kitchener. (Photo by Ernest H. Mills/Getty Images) (credit:Ernest H. Mills via Getty Images)
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1916: Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) speaking at a munitions factory in Ponders End. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
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circa 1916: Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) speaking at Chelmsford, Essex, around 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
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1900: A group of war correspondents in South Africa during the Boer War. Amongst them is a young Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), middle row second from left, reporting for the Morning Post. The others include: back row, left to right: William Dinwiddie of Harper\'s Weekly, Alister Campbell of Laffan\'s News Agency, J Atkins of the Manchester Guardian, Douglas Story of the Daily Mail, GH Seull of the New York Commercial Advertiser, RC Booth of Pearson\'s War News and RMB Paxton of the Sphere. Middle row, left to right: Basil Gotto of the Daily Express, Churchill, FW Walker of the Daily Express, and MH Donohoe of the Daily Chronicle. Front row, left to right: WB Wollen of the Sphere, JO Knight of the Times and Herald of Chicago and Ernest Prater of the Sphere. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
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UNITED KINGDOM - CIRCA 1912: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British politician, giving evidence during the English anarchists\' trial in 1912. (Photo by Branger/Roger Viollet/Getty Images) (credit:Branger via Getty Images)
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1912: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965), British Statesman and Prime Minister inspecting the boys from a training ship. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
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File photo dated 27/07/64 of Sir Winston Churchill leaving his London home for the House of Commons, as it is exactly 50 years since Winston Churchill last appeared in the chamber of the House of Commons, in the summer of 1964, the year before his death aged 90. (credit:PA Wire/PA Wire)
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Undated file photo of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his way to a War Council meeting, as it is exactly 50 years since Winston Churchill last appeared in the chamber of the House of Commons, in the summer of 1964, the year before his death aged 90. (credit:PA Wire/PA Wire)
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U.S. Ambassador John Winant, left, signs documents which gives the United States 99-year leases on British properties in the western hemisphere as Prime Minister Winston Churchill of England looks on in London, March 27, 1941. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill of England with Gen. William Hood Simpson, Commander in Chief of the U.S. 9th Army, tour the ruins of Julich, Germany, on the Siegfried Line, March 7, 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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British Prime Minister Winson Churchill and his wife Clementine on board the SS Statendam in New York City, Jan. 25, 1932. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Vice President Richard Nixon shakes hands with Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Washington National Airport on June 29, 1954 as he bid farewell to the British diplomat as he leaves for Canada after a weekend of talks with President Eisenhower on world problems. Sir Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister, who accompanied Churchill, and United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles are at center. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, cigar in mouth, talks with U.S. elder statesman Bernard Baruch at the Statler Hotel in New York on June 28, 1954 after a press luncheon given for Churchill. (AP Photo/Bill Allen) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this image provided by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the Prime Ministers of Englandâs dominions and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme Allied invasion commander, accompanying British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on a tour of British Army installations in the field on May 16, 1944. Left to right: Mackenzie King, of Canada; Churchill; Peter Frazer, of New Zealand; Gen. Eisenhower; Sir Godfrey Huggins, of Rhodesia, and Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, of South Africa. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Signal Corps) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain (center) listens to an explanation by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, right, commander-in-chief of Allied forces in the European theatre, as they inspect a mortar during a tour of a base somewhere in England in March 1944 where American Airborne troops are preparing for the forthcoming invasion. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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** FILE ** From left, Soviet Union Premier Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sit at the Teheran Conference in the capital of Iran, in this Nov. 28, 1943, file photo. Russian President Vladimir Putin is the first Kremlin leader to travel to Iran since Stalin, who attended the 1943 wartime summit with Churchill and Roosevelt to discuss Allied plans for the war against Nazi Germany and for postwar cooperation in the United Nations. (AP Photo/File) (credit:AP)
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Winston Churchill approaching microphones to make a speech in Jan 1939. (AP Photo/Staff/Putnam) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Mr. Winston Churchill, the first lord of the admiralty, is 65 today. At the start of the last war at the comparatively early of the last war at the comparatively early age â nor a statesman â of 40, Mr. Churchill was first lord of the admiralty. His 65th birthday on Nov. 30, finds him filling the same office at the beginning of another war, and filling it with the same vigour and energy and determination as he displayed in 1914. Mr. Winston Churchill leaving the admiralty on November 30, his birthday. A small dinner part is being held at admiralty house today to mark the anniversary, but, so busy is Mr. Churchill at present that he can do no word than hope to be able to be present. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Winston Churchill\'s Daughter, Mary, 18, in gay moment at the circus (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill bids farewell to Queen Elizabeth II at the end of a dinner April 4, 1955 he hosted at No. 10 Downing Street in London. Lady Churchill stands in the doorway as she follows The Queen. This evening is considered to be Churchill\'s farewell party. Among the other guests will be Sir Anthony Eden, Britain\'s foreign secretary and Churchill\'s close associate. Eden is expected to succeed Churchill in Britain\'s top government job. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Winston Churchill, December 1921 at 10 Downing Street, London after the successful cabinet meeting concerning the Irish agreement. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sir Winston Churchill, left, is shown with British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan on Feb. 8, 1961, as the wartime British leader called at Londonâs admiralty house for luncheon. Admiralty house is MacMillian\'s official residence in London, while No. 10 Downing Street is being renovated. (AP Photo/Leslie Priest) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sir Winston Churchill, left, shakes hands with French President Charles de Gaulle as the latter leaves Sir Winstonâs London home at Hyde Park Gate, London on April 6, 1960, after a special private visit. In left foreground is Yvonne de Gaulle, behind the President is Jean Chauvel, the French Ambassador, and behind him is Clementine, Lady Churchill. The visit with Sir Winston was not on President de Gaulleâs official programme. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Former British Premier Sir Winston Churchill, wearing a fur-collared overcoat and smoking a cigar, is accompanied by his friend, Greek Ship owner Aristotle Onassis, as he leaves the Hotel De Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco on Feb. 9, 1960, Mr. Onassis accompanied Sir Winston and Lady Churchill on their flight to London. They have spent five weeks in Monte Carlo. (AP Photo/K) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sir Winston Churchill, former British prime minister, flashes famous âVâ sign as he tours constituency of Woodford, England on Oct. 8, 1959. Sir Winston, now nearing 85, rode in an open car in a final bid for a seat in the House of Commons. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, sits with his wife Lady Clementine in their apartment in London, Great Britain, November 28, 1959. (AP Photo/Str) --- Der ehemalige britische Premierminister Sir Winston Churchill und seine Ehefrau Lady Clementine in ihrer Londoner Wohnung am 28. November 1959. (AP Photo/Str) (credit:Associated Press)
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Sir Winston Churchill, center foreground, is shown as he rides in open car on tour of polling places in his Woodford, England constituency on Oct. 8, 1959. Now nearing 85, Britainâs former prime minister is the oldest conservative party candidate in Britainâs general election. Heâs almost certain to win his 20th contest to represent the London suburb in the House of Commons. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sir Winston Churchill tours Woodford. With the brim of his Homburg turned down, Sir Winston haves to supporters as he Drives throught Woodford, Essex, in an open car today, October 6, 1959, during a tour of his Parliamentary Constituency. The brim of his hat was turned down to keep the wind out of his Eyes. (AP-Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill chat during dinner party at London\'s Winfield House, Sept. 1, 1959 when Ike was host to World War II associates. Behind them is Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill comes ashore at Portofino, Italy, on July 24, 1959, from the Christina, the ocean-going yacht of Greek ship owner Aristotle Onassis. Churchill is among Onassisâs guests on a Mediterranean cruise. (AP Photo/J) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Britain\'s former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, left, and Mrs Tina Onassis, wife of Greek ship owner, prepare to go on board the yacht \'Christina\', at Monte Carlo, Monaco, July 22, 1959, after they had attended a party. Greek opera singer Maria Callas is seen right background. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sir Winston Churchill steps from plane at New Yorkâs La Guardia Airport on May 8, 1959. Behind the former British Prime Minister is his old crony and host for two-day stay in New York, financier Bernard Baruch. Pair came from Washington together on President Eisenhowerâs personal plane, Columbine III. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Winston Churchill with Dwight D. Eisenhower during a visit to Ike\'s Gettysburg farm on May 8, 1959. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sir Winston Churchill strides through a White House door on May 7, 1959 in Washington with his hosts, President Dwight Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower, after a brief visit at the executive mansion. Churchill moved to the British Embassy for the remainder of his Washington visit. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sir Winston Churchill and President Dwight Eisenhower use the Chief Executive\'s electric car for a tour of the Eisenhower farm here on May 6, 1959 in Gettysburg. The President and Churchill flew here from the White House by helicopter. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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John Foster Dulles gestures from his wheelchair in the sitting room of his Walter Reed Army Hospital suite in Washington on May 5, 1959 as he talks with Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister and President Eisenhower who paid him a surprise visit. On wall is Eisenhower?s painting of Churchill. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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John Foster Dulles sits in a wheelchair as he chats with two distinguished visitors, President Dwight Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill, at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington on May 5, 1959. The President and his White House guest drove to the hospital to pay the call on the former secretary of State who is undergoing treatment for cancer. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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President Dwight Eisenhower helps Sir Winston Churchill as they leave the Eisenhower farm on May 6, 1959 in Gettysburg, Pa. for a return helicopter flight to Washington. They flew from the White House earlier in the day for a tour of the President\'s Gettysburg farm. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Winston Churchill, gives his famous \"V\" sign as he is taken out to \"Christina O\", a luxury yacht owned by Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, along with his wife, Baroness Spencer-Churchil, whilst on holiday in Morocco. Feb. 23, 1959. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sir Winston Churchill, left, sits with his host, novelist Somerset Maugham, on the terrace of Maugham\'s villa \"La Mauresque\" at Cap Ferrat, France, April 2, 1959. The former British prime minister was the author\'s guest for lunch. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Britain\'s Sir Winston Churchill leaves the beach at Monte-Carlo with his eight-year-old granddaughter Arabella, right, his wife Lady Churchill and their son Randolph, in September 1958. Arabella Spencer-Churchill, the unconventional granddaughter of Britain\'s wartime prime minister and a founder of the Glastonbury rock festival, died THursday Dec. 20, 2007 at age 58, her husband said. Spencer-Churchill, who had pancreatic cancer, died at home in Glastonbury, southwestern England, said her husband. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speaking at a luncheon of combined press organizations in Washington on June 28, 1954, makes a plea for a âreal good tryâ for peaceful co-existence with Russia to minimize the risk of a conflict which would âleave us victorious on a heap of ruins.â Heâs in the United States for a series of talks with President Eisenhower on the world situation. (AP Photo/Bill Allen) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sir Winston Churchill gives V-sign as he emerges from the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin town hall in France on March 31, 1956. Churchill was made an honorary citizen of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. He has been on holiday at this French Riviera resort for the past month. At right, behind him, is the prefect of the Alpes Maritime, Pierre Jean Moatti. (AP Photo/Jean Jacques Levy) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Mr. Winston Churchill made an eve of election tour of South Hammersmith, London on Feb. 23, 1949. He aimed at rallying conservative supporters before polling takes place in the bye election on February 24. The candidates are Mr. Anthony Fell, conservative and Mr. Tom Williams, labor. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Winston Churchill puts on his famous bulldog expression as he pleads for European unity during his Communist-heckled speech in the Place de la Bourse (Brusselsâ Wall Street) in Brussels, Belgium on Feb. 27, 1949. Britainâs wartime prime minister is a delegate to the Council of European Movement. (AP Photo/Michael Nash) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill comes ashore after a swim at Larvotto Beach, Monte Carlo, Sept. 28, 1948. Finding the pebbles a little tough on his feet, he came ashore on all fours. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill comes ashore after a swim at Larvotto Beach, Monte Carlo, Sept. 28, 1948. Finding the pebbles a little tough on his feet, he came ashore on all fours. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Winston Churchill appears calmly happy in London on Oct. 26, 1947 as his wife Clementine whispers congratulations as late returns assured his conservative party of victory in the British national election. Election figures clinched for Churchill another term as Prime Minister and the end of the Labor government of Clement Attlee. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Winston Churchill, surrounded by crowds as he toured North Croydon, England in an open car on March 9, 1948 in connection with the Croydon by-election which takes place on March 11. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A blonde youngster receives a chuck under the chin from Winston Churchill, right, Britainâs wartime Prime Minister, at conclusion of ceremonies at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on May 10, 1947, during which Churchill placed a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The girl is Marie-France Wietzel, daughter of French Admiral Wietzel. At left is Rear Admiral Richard Shelley, British Naval Attache in Paris. (AP Photo/Michael Nash) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Winston Churchill, wartime leader of Britain, places flowers on the grave of Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., wartime commander of the U.S. Third Army, during Churchillâs visit to the U.S. military cemetery at Hamm, Luxembourg on July 15, 1946. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Britain\'s Prime Minister Clement Attlee, standing left, is seen with former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seated, Canadian Prime Minister McKenzie King, second right, and South African Prime Minister Field-Marshall Jan Smuts, in uniform, on the saluting base, in the Mall, London, June 8, 1946, for the Victory Day parade. Behind, in uniform, is Britain\'s Duchess of Kent, her daughter Princess Alexandra and 11-year old King Feisal of Iraq. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Winston Churchill, leader of the opposition in the present Parliament, shown on grounds of Chartwell, his Westerham, Kent, home on Sept. 20, 1951. (AP Photo) (credit:AP)
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Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister, stands sadly, hands in pockets, after he placed a wreath on the grave of the late U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N.Y., March 12, 1946. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the president stands in the background. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Winston Churchill, front car, seated in rear seat waves to hundreds of Virginians standing in the rain on his way to the Capitol building in Richmond, Virginia on March 8, 1946. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is seated in car, saluting. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Winston Churchill marches in academic procession across the turf of the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida on Feb. 26, 1946 where he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from University of Miami. At his right is Dr. Bowman F. Ashe, university president. (AP Photo/Earl Shugars) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 13: Mr Winston Churchill, Britain\'s new Premier and Minister of Defence, attended a Privy Council Meeting at Buckingham Palace. (Photo by Planet News Archive/SSPL/Getty Images) (credit:Planet News Archive via Getty Images)
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Big crowds of City workers in Central London following the latest election results. Winston Churchill of the Conservatives was successful and became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the second time (credit:PA/PA Archive)
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Vast crowds fill London\'s Trafalgar Square tonight (Thursday, Polling Day) to watch the results of the General Election, which are flashed on a giant screen high on a nearby building. Winston Churchill of the Conservatives was successful and became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the second time (credit:PA/PA Archive)
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British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, left, smokes his customary cigar during call on Edouard Herriot, president of the French National Assembly in Paris, France on Sept. 11, 1951. (AP Photo/Louis Heckly) (credit:Louis Heckly/AP)
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A collect picture of Neville Duke, test pilot and World War II fighter ace with Winston Churchill in 1951, copied from the order of service at his funeral at St Andrews Church in Tangmere near Chichester West Sussex. (credit:Chris Ison/PA Archive)
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30th January 1965: The coffin of Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) is carried down the nave of St Paul\'s Cathedral. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images) (credit:William Vanderson via Getty Images)
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The coffin of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) is loaded onto a train at Waterloo Station, London, before travelling to Blenheim Palace after Churchill\'s state funeral, London, 30th January 1965. The train was pulled by a Battle-of-Britain-Class locomotive named \'Winston Churchill\'. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Fox Photos via Getty Images)
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30th January 1965: The coffin of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) on board the barge Havengore at Tower Pier after the state funeral at St Paul\'s cathedral. (Photo by Victor Drees/Evening Standard/Getty Images) (credit:Victor Drees via Getty Images)
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The funeral service for Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) in St Paul\'s Cathedral, London, 30th January 1965. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
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30th January 1965: Soldiers carrying the coffin of Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) draped with a Union Jack up the steps of St Paul\'s London. (Photo by Bob Haswell/Express/Getty Images) (credit:Bob Haswell via Getty Images)

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