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Sir Winston Churchill is one of the most recognisable figures in British history and famously led Britain to victory in the Second World War. Born in 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, he was the eldest child of Conservative politician Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill and American-born British socialite Jennie Jerome.
Churchill successfully passed the entrance examination to the Royal Military College Sandhurst on his third attempt and passed out as twentieth in a class of 130. His father passed away in 1895, which had a profound effect on the young Churchill as he entered the fourth Hussars in the same year.
Churchill’s career in the military saw him travel widely and would often write about the conflicts he encountered for newspapers. In 1900, Churchill turned his attention to politics and went on to have an impressive political career, representing five constituencies, serving under 13 prime ministers and becoming prime minister himself in 1940 and again in 1951. Two years later, in 1953, he received and accepted both the Order of the Garter and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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