The Mystical Element of Churchill

Winston Churchill had this sense really from the age of 16 when he was a schoolboy at Harrow. He said to his best friend, Merlin Devons, that there shall be great upheavals and terrible struggles in our lives. It's an extraordinary thing, this. I think it was a combination of things, this extraordinary belief in private, in personal destiny. And so he saw himself as part of the great tapestry and the continuum of history. Also, his parents, who never really thought much of him. His father was a great Victorian statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer, one of the great orators of the day. Yet he always despised his son