THE STATE FUNERAL OF SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL

CHURCHILL IN OLD AGE (HE BEGAN PLANNING HIS OWN FUNERAL WHICH HE DUBBED “OPERATION HOPE NOT” CHURCHILL LOVED RITUALS AND CEREMONIES. HE KNEW THEIR POWER AND THEIR INFLUENCE. HE BEGAN PLANNING HIS OWN FUNERAL IN DECEMBER 1943. ORIGINALLY THE PLAN WAS GIVEN THE TITLE OF “THE FUNERAL BOOK,” AND IN THIS BOOK CHURCHILL WROTE OUT THE MINUTEST DETAILS CONCERNING THE CEREMONY AND WAS NOT ABOVE REMOVING PEOPLE FROM THE PROCEEDINGS WHO HAD PROVOCKED HIM. BY 1954 HE WAS AT WORK AGAIN, BUT BY THIS TIME THE QUEEN HAD APPROAVED A STATE FUNERAL. CHURCHILL ALSO CONCEIVED OF A TRIP UP THE THAMES LIKE LORD NELSON HAD IN 1806 – AND AS CHURCHILL LOVED THE NAVY AND WAS AT ONE TIME HEAD OF THE ADMIRALTY THE WAS DEEMED MOST APPROPRIATE.

CHURCHILL WITH HIS WIFE, CLEMENTINE, ON HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY CHURCHILL WITH HIS WIFE, CLEMENTINE, ON HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY. THIS WAS THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OF THE GREAT MAN. CHURCHILL’S LAST YEARS WERE NOT HIS BEST. HIS MIND WANDERED, HE WAS FEEBLE, AND AT TIME SAT FOR HOURS IN COMPLETE SILENCE. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN ON NOVEMBER 30, 1964 ON HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY

THIS IS THE HOME WHERE CHURCHILL DIED IN NEW HYDE PARK GATE, LONDON EARLY IN JANUARY 1964 CHURCHILL SUFFERED A MASSIVE STROKE. HE LAST WORDS WERE “I AM SO BORED WITH IT.” SHORTLY BEFORE 8:00 A.M. CHURCHILL DIED. HE DIED ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS OWN FATHERS DEATH. BIG BEN TOLLED THE 8:00 A.M. HOUR AND THEN WAS SILENT AND THE LIGHTS IN PICCADILLY CIRCUS WERE EXTINGUISHED.

THE BANTINGS THE ROYAL UNDERTAKERS FROM 1810-1928 SIR FREDERICK BANTING WILLIAM WESTPORT BANTING THE BANTING FAMILY HELD WHAT IS CALLED THE ROYAL WARRANT FROM 1810-1928. IN EFFECT THE ROYAL WARRANTS WHICH ARE A DISTINCTIVELY EUROPEAN CUSTOMS MEANS THAT ROYAL FAMILIES ISSUE WARRANTS TO CERTAIN TRADES AS THE BUTCHER, COBBLER, TAILOR. THE BANTING FAMILY HELD THE ROYAL WARRANT TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE AS THE ROYAL UNDERTAKERS FOR DECADES. THE LEFT IMAGE IS WILLIAM BANTING WHO INTERESTINGLY WENT DOWN IN HISTORY NOT AS THE ROYAL UNDERTAKER BUT AS THE ORIGINATOR OF THE LOW CARB DIET. MR. BANTING STOOD 5’4” AND WEIGHTED OVER 400 LBS. HE DEVELOPED THE IDEA OF EATING ONLY A PROTEIN DIET AND LOST 150 LBS. HIS DIET BECAME A FAD IN EUROPE AND TO THIS DAY IN SWEDEN THE TERM TO DIET IS “TO BANT.” THE RIGHT IMAGE IS HIS GRANDSON FREDERICK GRAHAM BANTING WHO WON THE NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF INSULIN.

THE HEARSE MADE BY THE UNDERTAKING FIRM OF BANTING & FRANCE FOR THE FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON

James kenyon, founder of j.h. kenyon & sons undertakers, london

Lord randolph churchill, father of winston s. churchill

Funeral of lord randolph churchill westminster abbey january 28, 1895

Sir harold vaughn kenyon west end society undertaker

Sir michael kenyon funeral director in charge of the state funeral of sir winston s. churchill

Main office of j.h. kenyon & sons, funeral directors west end, london

Mr. desmond hendley master embalmer with j. h. kenyon & sons mr Mr. desmond hendley master embalmer with j.h. kenyon & sons mr. hendley embalmed the remains of sir winston s. churchill he was awarded the order of the british empire by queen elizabeth

The mortal remains of sir winston s. churchill being removed from st The mortal remains of sir winston s. churchill being removed from st. paul’s cathedral, london

Churchill’s last trip up the thames

Lowering churchill’s remains into the grave. Bladon churchyard

The final resting place of sir winston leonard spencer churchill

HOW HE IS REMEMBERED

THE MARBLE LEGEND AT THE WEST DOOR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY IT READS “REMEMBER WINSTON CHURCHIL” HOW COULD ANYONE FORGET HIM?