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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph annotation, in red ink, to a typescript note by his secretary Kathleen Hill reading 'Mr Churchill. / Do you wish to have Mrs. Oliver and Mr. and Mrs. Sandys invited to dinner to-night, please? / Any other guests? / K.H. 8.5.45', Churchill's annotations responding 'Yes' to the first question and 'one extra please' to the second, one page, 8vo; envelope, marked 'Private'. Provenance: Kathleen Hill collection; Sotheby's, 13 December 1994, lot 218.
DINNER ON V-E DAY. Churchill spent the morning of 8 May 1945 in bed, working on his victory broadcast. He lunched with the King at Buckingham Palace before delivering the broadcast at 3 p.m. from the Cabinet Room, and repeating the statement in the House of Commons half an hour later. After returning to Buckingham Palace for a meeting of the War Cabinet with the King, he spent the rest of the day in the Annexe, with sorties to the Ministry of Health balcony overlooking Whitehall to address the vast crowds gathered there. His companions for dinner, as noted in the present minute, were his daughters Sarah (Mrs Oliver) and Diana, with the latter's husband Duncan Sandys; the 'one extra' was the newspaper proprietor Lord Camrose. The only sadness was that Clementine was still on her Russian visit, and could only exchange telegrams with her husband in his moment of supreme glory.
DINNER ON V-E DAY. Churchill spent the morning of 8 May 1945 in bed, working on his victory broadcast. He lunched with the King at Buckingham Palace before delivering the broadcast at 3 p.m. from the Cabinet Room, and repeating the statement in the House of Commons half an hour later. After returning to Buckingham Palace for a meeting of the War Cabinet with the King, he spent the rest of the day in the Annexe, with sorties to the Ministry of Health balcony overlooking Whitehall to address the vast crowds gathered there. His companions for dinner, as noted in the present minute, were his daughters Sarah (Mrs Oliver) and Diana, with the latter's husband Duncan Sandys; the 'one extra' was the newspaper proprietor Lord Camrose. The only sadness was that Clementine was still on her Russian visit, and could only exchange telegrams with her husband in his moment of supreme glory.
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