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An original press photograph of Sir Winston S Churchill taken on 11 April 1963 capturing him waving while smoking a cigar as he leaves his Hyde Park Gate home for a holiday in Monte Carlo

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London: P.A. Reuter Photos Ltd., April 1963. Photograph. This is an original press photograph of Sir Winston S. Churchill taken on 11 April 1963 capturing him waving while smoking a cigar as he leaves his Hyde Park Gate home for a holiday in Monte Carlo. This image measures 10 x 7.625 in (25.4 x 19.4 cm) on glossy photo paper. Condition is very good. The paper is crisp with only some light bruising to the corners and light scuffing visible only under raking light. The verso bears the copyright stamp of “P.A. Reuter Photos Ltd.”, a purple received stamp of The Daily Telegraph from April 1963, and a typed caption. The quite voluble original caption is titled “SIR WINSTON’S PARTING WAVE: EASTER IN MONTE CARLO” and reads: Wave from 88-year-old SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL as, clenching a cigar, he leaves his London home at 28, Hyde Park Gate, S.W., by car for London Airport to-day (Thursday). He was to fly off for a holiday in Monte Carlo, where he will spend Easter. It is Sir Winston’s first holiday abroad since he fell and fractured his left thigh in his Monte Carlo hotel room last June. As he set off for the airport, people shouted ‘Happy Easter, Sir Winston.’ He will be in Monte Carlo for about a fortnight. April 11 1963” This photograph was taken in the twilight of Churchill’s remarkable life, less than two years before his death. Six years earlier, on 5 April 1955, Churchill had resigned his second and final premiership at the age of 80. “It was during April” of 1963, when this ph

  • Publisher: P.A. Reuter Photos Ltd.
  • Year: 1963
  • Binding: unknown

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