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Great Contemporaries
Churchill and Margaret Thatcher: Two Meetings of Two Minds
28
Mar
2023
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
It is curious that neither her biographer Charles Moore nor Churchill’s bodyguard Edmund Murray—who each knew of one Churchill-Thatcher meeting—knew of the other. The story of their two encounters shows us that Margaret Thatcher’s respect for Churchill was lifelong. And Churchill’s words in 1950 on the regulatory state could have been her own words, 30 years later. When it came to liberty, neither were for turning.
Great Contemporaries: Richard Meinertzhagen
15
Dec
2015
1
Great Contemporaries: Peter and Alexandra
19
Nov
2015
Great Contemporaries: Ralph Wigram and His Death
02
Nov
2015
2
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Ever since the producers of “The Wilderness Years” television documentary (1982) took liberties by suggesting that Wigram was a suicide, it has been broadly accepted as fact. Indeed recently another myth was layered on to this one: that Wigram’s parents didn’t attend his funeral in Sussex because suicide was proscribed by the Church.
Churchill and Ataturk
08
Apr
2015