Winston Churchill — Did His Wife Decide His Fate?
Winston Churchill noticed his wife had spent an inordinate amount of time in conversation with a street sweeper. Curious about the encounter, he asked Clementine, “What did you talk about for so long?”
She explained that they once knew each other quite well. In fact, the man was once quite enamored with her.
Churchill smiled and chided his wife. “So you could have been the wife of a street sweeper today.”
“Oh no, my love,” Clementine replied, “If I had married him, he would have been the prime minister today.”
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