Quotes
Order of the Boot
Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London © Sue Lowry & Magellan PR
December 21, 2015
‘How can I accept the Order of the Garter, when the people of England have just given me the Order of the Boot?’
-Winston S Churchill, September 1945.
Following the July 1945 election, when Churchill and his government were put out of office, King George VI offered him the Order of the Garter, which he declined.
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