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Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2018 18:12:50 GMT
Queen Elizabeth II had a special fondness for her first Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. His coalition government had gone through a defeat at the end of the war and was briefly succeeded by the Labour Party, headed by Clement Atlee. He returned to the Prime Ministership in 1951 and Elizabeth was coronated in 1953 at the age of 27. In Amazon Prime documentary “The Queen and her Prime Ministers”, royal experts reveal Winston Churchill was a formidable presence for the young monarch, who remained in awe of the great war leader.  The footage’s narrator explains: “During their first audience it becomes clear that he feels a lot more for her than just respect.” Nicholas Soames, Grandson of Winston Churchill reveals: “I think the Queen valued my grandfather's experience, and he of course loved the Queen.  “He did love her. I mean, she aroused in him all his romantic ideas of sovereignty and monarchy.” Royal historian Robert Lacey reveals: “I think there’s a sense in which all the Queen’s Prime Ministers have been in love with her to a certain degree. “But it was most overtly displayed by Churchill. He made no pretence at it, there were tears in his eyes when he welcomed her." |
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Post by Admin on Sept 5, 2019 18:02:03 GMT
Nicholas Soames, grandson of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, is among the 21 lawmakers set to be expelled from the United Kingdom's Conservative Party after breaking with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a vote on Brexit earlier on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
Soames and 20 other members of the governing Conservative Party captured headlines earlier on Tuesday after they voted to join the opposition party in supporting a measure that would stop Johnson from taking the U.K. out of the European Union in the absence of a formal deal.
In response to the move, Johnson is moving to have the group expelled from the Conservative Party, a spokesman for his office confirmed to Reuters.
“The chief whip is speaking to those Tory [Conservative] MPs [members of parliament] who did not vote with the government this evening. They will have the Tory whip removed,” the representative said, according to the news agency.
Soames confirmed the news in an interview later on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
“I have been told by the chief whip, who is my friend and who I like very much, that it will be his sad duty to write to me tomorrow to tell me I have had the whip removed after 37 years as a Conservative member of parliament,” the 71-year-old said. “That’s fortunes of war. I knew what I was doing.”
“It is a pity — a great pity — that this has in my view all been planned: this is exactly what they wanted and they will try to have a general election which is what they wanted,” Soames, who has served as a Conservative Member of Parliament for nearly four decades, also said.
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