Memory of Queen Elizabeth: the one who was lucky enough to have Winston Churchill as a teacher
In memory of Queen Elizabeth, who died this September 8, we remember the special relationship she had with Sir Winston Churchill. He, the famous politician, with a very long career, who opposed Hitler, and she, the Queen who ruled for 70 years and who ascended the throne very young, in a particular moment at the sunset of the British Empire.
Churchill saw Elizabeth Windsor, still a long way from becoming heir to the throne, in 1928 Among Churchill's papers, the earliest recorded reference to the future queen is found in a letter to his wife that Churchill wrote from Balmoral Castle on September 25 of that year, in which Churchill anticipates the fate of the future sovereign: “ There is no one here, except the Family, the House and Queen Elizabeth, 2 years old. It has an air of surprising authority and reflexivity in a child…. ". She was the daughter of Albert George Windson, Edward's brother, destined to become King. Fate (and Mrs. Wallis) wanted it differently and when Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 she became heir to the throne.
Despite this between Churchill and the future Queen there were not many contacts in those years, yet the case had to unite them. In 1945 Churchill, despite being victorious, lost the elections to Clement Attlee in 1945 and left the government. When George VI died in 1951, Churchill had just returned to the government, but he was not already in excellent health and was 77 years old. Elizabeth was very young, only 25, the same age Churchill was the first time he was elected to the House of Commons. She had a great admiration of Churchill, like all young people who had lived through the war, and the Prime Minister, although initially suspicious, took a liking to her. Winston was loyal to the monarchy, but he had his own clear ideas about kings, even of England. Churchill's youngest daughter, Mary, told her daughter Emma Soames: “The Queen fascinated him very quickly, he let himself be enchanted by her. I think she immediately sensed her immense sense of duty and was looking forward to meeting the young monarch on Tuesday afternoon. ”4 Mary also recalled Churchill's refusal to consider Prince Philip's proposal to rename the Windsor House in Edinburgh House or Lord Mountbatten's idea of turning it into Mountbatten House. There was no lasting damage and, on April 24, 1953, the Queen awarded Churchill the Order of the Garter.
Churchill was a real master of British constitutional and parliamentary law, a difficult job, but he also taught her loyalty to the state and international politics. He treated her a bit like a niece, and they often spoke confidentially as well. When Churchill was forced to resign for health reasons in 1955, she broke the habit and wrote him a farewell letter, assuring him that no subsequent prime minister would be " able to hold the post of my prime minister, to whom My husband and I both owe so much, and for whose wise guidance during the early years of my reign I will always be so deeply grateful . "
When Churchill died in 1965, she broke the mold again: instead of arriving at the funeral last, after the family, she arrived first, to underline the importance that the leadership of the Prime Minister had had for her. A passing of the baton between two different eras.
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