![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s the sort of thing that is so thoughtless, stupid and ignorant and does the image of the Church so much harm. “I am glad to see that the cathedral’s canon chancellor has now written apologising and having the thing taken down. “It was deeply offensive and caused great offence to a number of members of my family, and representations were made by a number of people. ![]() The Conservative peer had “saved England” by leading the fight against Hitler and added: “Even for allowances of some of the sort of more extreme views in the Church of England, this is really going too far. But Shakespeare and the Bible were also key influences and phrasing and words evocative of both can be seen in his speeches and in his writing. Sir Winston’s grandson Nicholas Soames told the Mail on Sunday that his family felt that the remarks were “deeply offensive, thoughtless, stupid and ignorant.” While in India with his regiment in the late 1890s, Churchill had read voraciously making up for his lack of university education, he devoured works by Plato, Adam Smith, Darwin and Gibbon and Macauley. In an article on the site about the state funeral, the website referred to his role in “fending off the threat of invasion and enabling a fightback against the Nazi occupation of Europe.”īut the site added: “He is also a figure of controversy, as he was an unashamed imperialist and white supremacist.” The insulting description is understood to have remained on the cathedral’s website for more than a year, although Sir Winston’s state funeral was held there in 1965. She was never married 'Mrs' was an honorific given to nannies and cooks as a courtesy. St Paul’s Cathedral has upset the family of Sir Winston Churchill after they branded the wartime leader as an “unashamed imperialist” and “white supremacist.” 1832 3 July 1895) was Winston Churchills beloved nurse and nanny, and an important figure in his early life. ![]()
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