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Winston Churchill's mother responds to an underwhelming school report

Jun 24, 2022

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Winston Churchill, aged 4, with his mother. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

In 1890, fifty long years before he confidently led the United Kingdom to victory against Nazi Germany in World War II, future prime minister Winston Churchill was an easily distracted, underachieving fifteen-year-old coasting through…

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