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Churchill was 'madly in love with' Queen Elizabeth and she waived royal protocol to show her respect for her favourite prime minister: ANDREW MORTON lifts the lid on their extraordinary relationship in an exclusive extract from his new book

It was little wonder that in March 1955, after Churchill had informed her of his decision to finally retire, Queen Elizabeth was keen on granting the old bulldog nothing less than a Dukedom.

70 days ago

How the Queen was reduced to tears by Prince Philip's blazing row with Churchill: Bitter feud revealed in new book by royal blockbuster author ANDREW MORTON... and the revelations don't stop there

Winston Churchill sat up in bed, scattering sheafs of state papers, his prominent blue eyes welling with tears. He had just been told that his wartime friend King George VI had died.

4 months ago

My Beautiful Laundrette review – landmark critique of Thatcher’s Britain with a larky Ealing air

Rerelease of funny-sad tale of a laundry madeover by a young south Asian man and his love interest (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a unique subversion of 1980s UK politics

‘The jewel in the jacksie of south Lon…

‘We have to move’: historic village of Tempsford reels from plan to swell its 600 residents to 350,000

Bedfordshire village endured the Romans and the Danes – but can it survive housebuilders and a plan to turn it into a railway hub?

This is – they tell you in Tempsford – where Boudicca rallied against…

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Fake Or Fortune? on BBC1: Was this £140 market find really a priceless painting by Churchill?

All the signs were that this picture, painted in the gardens of Herstmonceux castle in Sussex, was the real deal - one of Winston's earliest, from 1916, with his wife, Clementine.

5 months ago

AN WILSON: Ditch Churchill for Doctor Who on our banknotes? This isn't Strictly Come Dancing! A public vote will be a grim orgy of virtue-signalling

When you have been abroad and change your currency back into sterling, doesn't the humble fiver - with Churchill on one side and the late Queen or the King overleaf - tell you that you're home?

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