Winston Churchill London Tour

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Get to know the character behind the great man on these Winston Churchill tours! There’s no doubting Sir Winston Churchill is one of the most significant people in the history of this country. Join a Winston Churchill walking tour of London & in two hours you’ll discover there was a lot more to Churchill than rousing ‘fighting them on the beaches’ speeches.

The starting point for your Churchill tour around London is Westminster tube station. Your knowledgeable host will show you Winston’s London from the point of view of his personal life & his political career. You’ll see the church where he married his darling Clementine in 1908 & discover one of his favourite dining spots. He was a keen painter too so it’s highly appropriate to pop in to the National Portrait Gallery to see Churchill’s portrait proudly hanging there.

As for his political career well it wasn’t without controversy. As the highly-acclaimed multi-award winning 2018 film ‘ Darkest Hour’ shows on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s resignation Churchill was not the first choice of successor & your Winston Churchill tour host will reveal why.  However as the country tried to unite with a coalition government including Chamberlain & Halifax PM Winston Churchill was acutely aware of the threat from the Germany Army already on the march in mainland Europe…

By May 1940 Churchill was holding cabinet meetings in the War Rooms the subterranean offices under the Treasury that feature on this Winston Churchill walking tour. In total 115 were held & whilst the Blitz bombing raged overhead the Map Room was staffed 24 hours a day. The Cabinet Room became the HQ of Churchill’s war campaign with an office-cum-bedroom for the PM & even a Transatlantic Telephone Room with a direct line to President Roosevelt.

The Cabinet War Rooms is where your Winston Churchill tour concludes. During the walk you will have found out all about Churchill the man his military career prior to becoming PM (he was First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War) & life as the Prime Minister who guided the country through the Second World War. Fascinating stuff & so much more fun than history at school ever was!