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The final documents, titled State Funeral of the Late Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H., were issued on 26 January 1965, two days after Churchill's death. The documents dictated the entire course of the funeral down to the minutest detail. [14]
Operation Hope Not was the code name of the plan for the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. It was titled The State Funeral of The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H., and was begun in 1953, twelve years before his death. [1] The detailed plan was prepared in 1958.
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Paying tribute to his predecessor, in a statement to the BBC, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said: "Sir Winston Churchill remains one of this country's greatest ever prime ministers, and his ...
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Churchill lived in Belgravia, London, where he died aged 69 on 2 March 2010 from prostate cancer, from which he had suffered for the last two years of his life. [14] [4] On 9 March, he was buried in the family plot at St Martin’s Church in Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire. [15]
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955.
After Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, Churchill proposed a summit meeting with the Soviets but Eisenhower refused out of fear that the Soviets would use it for propaganda. [25] [40] [41] Churchill persisted with his view before and after his stroke, but Eisenhower and Dulles continued to discourage him.