Winston Churchill's close friend and propaganda chief masqueraded as a 16-year-old schoolboy and hired other teenagers to cane him, a new memoir claims. Brendan Bracken, a noted Conservative politician and Churchill's wartime minister of information, was 54 years of age when he embarked on his fantasy to become 'Mike' the schoolboy. After 'Mike' was caught smoking and drinking prefects were told to administer the cane. Bracken - later becoming Lord Bracken - was not yet 22 when he swept 48-year-old Winston Churchill off his feet in 1923. The only obstacle to their friendship was Churchill's wife Clemmie, who could not understand why Winston liked Bracken.

Source: Daily Mail June 06, 2021 09:49 UTC