Today Louise and I drove down to Kent to visit Chartwell, the home of Winston Churchill. I’d first heard about it in Goa, when I read the biography of Churchill by Roy Jenkins; which for some reason is on sale in most English bookshops in India.An interesting fact was that even though Churchill was a leader of the free world, and one of the saviours of Western civilisation; at the end of the war in 1945, he was bankrupt, and it looked like Chartwell would have to be sold. A group of friends got together to buy the house for the nation, on the understanding that Churchill and his wife could continue to live in it for as long as they lived. So now it’s managed by the National Trust.
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