The Real Churchill’s London (Part 2)
London: The Evening Standard published an article on Churchill’s “favourite spots in the capital” (16 June 2016). It offered only Pol Roger champagne, the National Liberal Club, Romeo y Julieta cigars, a Churchill bar, Paxton & Whitfield’s cheese shop, Austin Reed’s menswear and Brown’s Hotel. With the exception of the National Liberal Club this assortment would more aptly be entitled “Churchill’s household staff’s favourite shopping places.” The real Churchill’s London, “Spinning Top of Memories,” is that official biographer Sir Martin Gilbert. The text is online. There you may read “of Ungrand Places and Moments in Time.”…
