March 20, 2024

Finest Hour 199, Special Issue 2022

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Coming in Finest Hour 200: Eightieth Anniversary of the Hinge of Fate

Churchill to the Queen

LONDON—5 February 1962, Madam, At the conclusion of the first decade of your Reign, I would like to express to Your Majesty my fervent hopes and wishes for many happy years to come. It is with pride that I recall that I was your Prime Minister at the inception of these ten years of devoted service to our country. With my humble duty, I remain, Your Majesty’s faithful Subject and servant—Winston S. Churchill

The Queen’s Message to the House of Lords

LONDON— 25 January 1965, I know that it will be the wish of all my people that the loss which we have all sustained by the death of the Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill, Knight of the Garter, should be met in the most fitting manner and that they should have an opportunity of expressing their sorrow at the loss and their veneration of the memory of that outstanding man who, in war and peace, served his country unfailingly for more than fifty years and in the hours of our greatest danger was the inspiring leader who strengthened and supported us all. Confident in the support of Parliament for the due acknowledgement of our debt of gratitude and in thanksgiving for the life and example of a national hero, I have directed that Sir Winston’s body shall lie in state in Westminster Hall and that thereafter the funeral service shall be held in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.—Elizabeth Regina