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On July 26, 1945, Royal Navy Captain Richard Kim went to see Winston Churchill with some bad news: the first returns in the general election showed the Labour Party winning 10 seats from the Conservatives.

“The Prime Minister was in his bath and certainly appeared surprised, if not shocked,” recalled Kim, an aide to Churchill. “He asked me to get him a towel and in a few minutes, clad in his blue siren suit and with a cigar he was in his chair in the Map Room—where he remained all day.”

Churchill soon learned that the Labour Party was triumphing in the election, putting an end to his prime ministership just two months after he led the nation to victory in the war against Nazi Germany.

Churchill’s wife Clementine tried to make the best of it: “It may well be a blessing in disguise,” she said, according to his biographer Martin Gilbert.

He replied, “At the moment it seems quite effectively disguised.”

After the flu…