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US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, meeting during the Casablanca conference in 1943. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

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Statue of Winston Churchill at Parliament Square, London (Photo by Dreamstime)

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Winston Churchill pictured in July 1964, a few months before his 90th birthday – a milestone that he marked with tears. The prime minister would cry at everything from suffering pets and march-pasts to dying friends and poetry recitals. (Picture by PA Images)

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Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

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American soldiers head towards the French coast, June 1944. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

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American president Warren G Harding and his wife, First Lady Florence Harding.

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Few war leaders have been more profoundly steeped in history than Winston Churchill, who drew inspiration from his ancestor – and one of Britain's most celebrated generals – the Duke of Marlborough (left). (Images by Getty Images/Bridgeman

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