Queen Elizabeth II and Winston S. Churchill Signed Document.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II AND WINSTON S. CHURCHILL,.

$50,000.00

Item Number: 132450

An extremely rare document signed by both Winston S. Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II. Churchill writes to the Queen from Downing Street, December 28th 1954, in full, “Sir Winston Churchill, with his humble duty to The Queen, has the honour to recommend that William Rankine Milligan, Esqure, Q.C., be sworn of Your Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council on his appointment as Lord Advocate.” Boldly signed by Churchill, and countersigned by the Queen at the top, “Appd, E.R.”

Matted and framed with a photograph of the Queen and Churchill. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 20 inches by 13 inches.

Rare signed by both Queen Elizabeth II and Winston Churchill, two towering figures of the twentieth century.

The longest-serving and longest-lived British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II reigned over 14 prime ministers, her relationship with each being different and complex considering various world crises and events. Elizabeth ascended to the British throne in 1925 at the age of 25, less than 7 years after the end of WWII. Churchill was prime minister when young Elizabeth became head of the commonwealth and soon became her most trusted mentor and advisor. The admiration was mutual, Churchill wrote in a letter from Balmoral in September of 1928, "There is no one here at all except the Family, the Household & Queen Elizabeth — aged 2. The last is a character. She has an air of authority & reflectiveness astonishing in an infant" (International Churchill Society). Churchill took it upon himself to instruct the queen on the laws and politics involved in running a constitutional monarchy and When she was asked which one of her prime ministers she had enjoyed the most, Queen Elizabeth reportedly said, "Winston of course, because it was always such fun." By the time he stepped down because of failing health, the relationship between Churchill and Queen Elizabeth was such that she sent him a handwritten note, telling him that no one that succeeded him could "hold the place of my first prime minister to whom both my husband and I owe so much and for whose wise guidance during the early years of my reign I shall always be so profoundly grateful." After Winston Churchill died, Queen Elizabeth II gave special permission for him to lie in state at Westminster Hall for three days before he was given a state funeral — only one of three British prime ministers to be given the honor — the first was the Duke of Wellington, and the second, the Viscount Palmerston. His was only one of two prime minister funeral services the queen has attended.