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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]
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. [2] On his father's side, he was a member of the aristocracy as a descendant of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough . [ 3 ]
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.
In 1871 Churchill and his elder brother George were initiated into the rites of Freemasonry, as later his son Winston would be. [ 9 ] At the general election of 1874 Churchill was elected to Parliament as Conservative member for Woodstock , near the family seat of Blenheim Palace , defeating George Brodrick , a Fellow of Merton.
Churchill was born on 10 October 1940 at Chequers, Buckinghamshire, England, five months after his grandfather became Prime Minister, a year into the Second World War.He was educated at Ludgrove, [2] Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.
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Again, sources disagree on several points. For one, some say he was found dead at home, but a letter from Churchill says he died in Ava's arms. [10] [13] His death certificate recorded the cause of death as pulmonary haemorrhage, but a letter from Henry Pelling indicates he committed suicide while deeply depressed.
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