Many Britons consider Winston Churchill to be the greatest of their countrymen, and it must be admitted that they have good reason. Churchill lived a very interesting life, full of important decisions and immense responsibility. Having become one of the most prominent politicians of his time, he forever inscribed his biography on the pages of the history of Great Britain, and he is still widely revered by all Englishmen.
He was born premature, seven months old, which did not prevent him from living for 90 years, despite the fact that he was not the most healthy way of life. Churchill’s biography mentions the fact that his father, because of mediocre success in his studies, gave up on him, considering him hopelessly stupid. The politician had mixed Anglo-American roots. His mother was the daughter of a businessman from the USA, and his father came from an ancient kind of English dukes. In childhood, Winston Churchill was often subjected to corporal punishment at school for bad behavior. Churchill’s parents could not pay much attention to his son, so the nurse brought him up. As he later recalled, she became for him the closest person in life. His full name is Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill.
At one time, the future politician had a good deal to do a lot, eventually rising to the rank of colonel. As a soldier, Churchill took part in hostilities in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. In 2002, the British company BBC conducted a survey, according to which Winston Churchill was recognized as the greatest British in history. Few people know that he was also a talented writer. He has written more books than the famous Walter Scott and Charles Dickens put together. Being also an experienced bricklayer, Churchill himself manually built his country estate. Favorite drink policy throughout life was brandy, and mostly Armenian.
In the 50s of the last century, Churchill received the Nobel Prize in literature, beating in the fight for first place Hemingway himself. Throughout his life, Churchill smoked a lot, preferring strong cigars. He became addicted to them when he served in Cuba as a war correspondent. He had a great memory and knew by heart almost all the works of Shakespeare. And one day he read 1200 lines from a book about the history of ancient Rome for a dispute from memory. Once, at an official reception, the waiter accidentally doused champagne with the head of a balding Churchill. In response, he asked the waiter if he really was sure that this was a suitable baldness remedy.
A talented and multifaceted man, he was also an artist. And very talented – his paintings were exhibited even in the Louvre, however, Churchill signed them with the pseudonym “Charles Morin”. Picasso himself publicly stated that Churchill would have become a great artist if he had not chosen a policy. He wrote all his political speeches himself. Churchill’s personal supply of cigars in his mansion consisted of several thousand pieces. At the end of the 19th century, when the future politician was in Africa as a war correspondent, the Boers, with whom the British fought, appointed a 25 pound reward for his head. At the same time for the work he then received a month 250 pounds. Once in Africa, he was captured, but managed to escape from prison.
