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Churchill and informed
In the BBC television series Churchill ‘ s Bodyguard ( original broadcast 2006 ), it is suggested that ( Abwehr ) German intelligence agents were in contact with members of the merchant navy in Britain and had been informed of Churchill ’ s departure and route.
When Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary, heard of this suggestion, she informed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and he later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declaring that the royal house was to remain known as the House of Windsor.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill was kept informed of these efforts throughout the war, and information from and about the Nazi resistance was exploited tactically.
In 1952, the directorate informed Prime Minister Winston Churchill, after his inquiry about UFOs, that they had found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
On 10 August, Churchill was informed that although 3, 500 volunteers had been selected to train as airborne troops, only 500 could currently begin training due to limitations in equipment and aircraft.
Having been informed by General Wavell that the Western Desert Force was vastly inferior to the Axis forces now in Africa, Churchill ordered that a convoy of tanks and Hawker Hurricanes, Convoy WS 58 ( codenamed Tiger ), be sailed through the Mediterranean instead of having it sail around the Cape of Good Hope ; a move that would save 40 days of sailing.
He defused a potential conflict between Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the British Sovereign, King George VI, when Churchill informed the King that he intended to observe the D-Day landings from aboard HMS Belfast, a cruiser assigned to bombardment duty for the operation.
In his role as Commander of the Guards Division he informed Major Winston Churchill of the latter's attachment to the 2nd Battalion of the Grenadiers in November 1915.
Churchill informed him that he was to be sent to China as his personal representative.
Hamilton immediately contacted Winston Churchill, and informed him of the Deputy Führer's arrival.
The EAS Churchill soon arrived, and informed Major Ryan and Captain Sheridan that because Mars had refused to implement martial law Clark had begun bombing targets on Mars.

Churchill and Queen
* 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.
The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.
In 2007, HM Queen Elizabeth II, on a visit to the United States, joined the racegoers at Churchill Downs.
Queen Anne was rumored to have a passionate relationship with Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, her closest adviser and confidante.
* May 29 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of Queen Anne of England ( d. 1744 )
* June – Queen Anne's Captain-General John Churchill forces the surrender of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine.
* Churchill, Randolph S. They Serve the Queen: A New and Authoritative Account of the Royal Household.
Queen Elizabeth II came to dine at 10 Downing Street to mark his resignation, an honour she has bestowed on only one other Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.
Because the Netherlands ' hope for liberation was now the entry of the US or the USSR into the war, the Queen dismissed her prime minister and replaced him with Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, who worked with Churchill and Roosevelt on ways to smooth the path for an American entry.
The Queen appointed Macmillan Prime Minister after taking advice from Winston Churchill and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, who had asked the Cabinet individually for their opinions, all but two or three of them opting for Macmillan.
* Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough-close friend of Queen Anne
Sarah Churchill ( née Jenyns, spelt Jennings in most modern references ), Duchess of Marlborough ( 5 June 1660 ( old style ) – 18 October 1744 ) rose to be one of the most influential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with Queen Anne of Great Britain.
Bliss, who composed quickly and with facility, was able to discharge the many duties of the post, providing music as required for state occasions, from the birth of a child to the Queen, to the funeral of Winston Churchill, to the investiture of the Prince of Wales.
In 1958, a Trust was established with Sir Winston Churchill as its Chairman of Trustees, to build and endow a college for 60 fellows and 540 Students as a national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill ; its Royal Charter and Statutes were approved by the Queen, in August, 1960.
On 8 February 1960, after the death of Queen Mary and the resignation of Churchill, the Queen confirmed that she and her children would continue to be known as the House and Family of Windsor, as would any agnatic descendants who enjoy the style of Royal Highness and the title of Prince or Princess.
She was a granddaughter of the powerful government trio during the reign of Queen Anne: the famous general and politician, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and his wife Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, through her mother ; and Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin through her father.
Churchill, whom the Queen consulted, did the same.

Churchill and Dominion
* August 9-12: The Atlantic Conference meeting in Argentia, Dominion of Newfoundland between Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins is held, to discuss the Atlantic Charter
At the outbreak of war in 1939 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Caldecote, of Bristol in the County of Gloucester, and made Lord Chancellor, but in May 1940 he once more became Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to make room for the marginalising of Sir John Simon in the new government of Churchill.
In November 1941, he travelled to London in an unsuccessful attempt to gain a promise from Winston Churchill that Burma be granted Dominion status after the Second World War ; at the same time, he made contact with the Japanese to secure his own political future should Japan invade Burma.

Churchill and prime
However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.
Macmillan served as Foreign Secretary in April – December 1955 in the government of newly appointed prime minister Anthony Eden, who had taken over from the retiring Winston Churchill.
In July 1940, after the defeat of the French armies and the consequent armistice with Germany, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, asked the Free French government-in-exile ( headed by General Charles de Gaulle ) to set up a secret service agency in occupied France to counter the threat of a German operation code-named Operation Sea Lion, the expected cross-channel invasion of Britain.
After the Soviet invasion of German-occupied Poland in July 1944, Polish government-in-exile prime minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk flew to Moscow with Churchill to argue against the annexation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact portion of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union.
Jessica and Deborah married nephews-by-marriage of prime ministers Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, respectively.
* Sir Anthony Eden married the niece of his prime ministerial predecessor, Winston Churchill.
He was one of the few prime ministers ( others include William Pitt the Younger, Sir Winston Churchill, George Canning, Spencer Percival, William Ewart Gladstone, Edward Heath, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown ) who never acceded to the peerage.
British prime minister Winston Churchill suggested to the incoming Eisenhower administration that Mossadegh, despite his open disgust with socialism, was, or would become, dependent on the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party, resulting in Iran " increasingly turning towards communism " and towards the Soviet sphere at a time of high Cold War fears.
In 1953, when Winston Churchill was prime minister, it was agreed that questions would be submitted on fixed days ( Tuesdays and Thursdays ).
In the same year, he married Diana Churchill, daughter of the future prime minister ( after being opposed at Norwood by a candidate put up by Randolph Churchill ).
An apocryphal story holds that the name was chosen by the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, who was opposed to the plan and claimed to having been " dragooned " into accepting it.
His temper as leader was, however, too gentle to satisfy the more ardent spirits among his own followers, and party cabals ( in which Lord Randolph Churchill, who had made a dead set at the " old gang ", took a leading part ) led to Sir Stafford's elevation to the Lords in 1885, when Lord Salisbury became prime minister.
Upon hearing about its disbandment later, British prime minister Sir Winston Churchilla great advocate for the commandos — ordered the formation of the Middle East Commando, made up from the commandos that had remained in the theatre.
Two days later, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill sent a memo to his chief staff officer, General Hastings Ismay, asking him to begin planning an operation for a raid on the islands as soon as possible and stating that he felt that it would be the type of operations that the newly formed Commandos would be suited for.
After the Soviet re-invasion of Poland in July 1944, the Polish government-in-exile prime minister flew to Moscow with Churchill to attempt to oppose annexations of its Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact portion of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union.
This raid, known as Operation Ambassador, which had been hastily organised at the behest of the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, was probing raid on the German-occupied island of Guernsey.
The London bureau chief of the Associated Press reported in American newspapers in early March 1942 the prediction by " an extremely well-placed and reliable political source ... that there was every likelihood " that Cripps would unseat Churchill as prime minister.
In 2010 she became chair of the trustees of the National Benevolent Fund for the Aged, after the death of Winston Churchill ( grandson of the former prime minister ).
Maxwell Fyfe remained ambitious and a 1954 Daily Mirror opinion poll, on the popular favourite to succeed Churchill as Party leader and prime minister, had him behind Eden and Butler but well ahead of Macmillan.
The role Churchill played in the Sidney Street Siege was highly controversial at the time, and many, including Arthur Balfour, the former prime minister, accused him of having acted improperly.
The range was named after Sir Winston Churchill, former British prime minister.
The church has been a common venue for " society " weddings, including those of Samuel Pepys, former prime ministers Sir Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan and members of the Bright Young People.

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