Here are a few facts most of them missed.

1. In 1963, Winston Churchill became the first person ever to be made an honorary US citizen.

2. Churchill and Mother Teresa are the only people to have been made honorary US citizens during their lifetimes.

3. Churchill’s mother was one-eighth Iroquois Indian.

4. The champagne house Pol Roger made a special one-pint bottle of champagne for Winston Churchill, to be served each day at 11am.

5. Churchill was also a great port lover but would buy only Graham’s Six Grapes port.

6. Graham’s have produced a limited edition of 6,000 bottles of Six Grapes for the 2015 anniversary.

7. When Churchill crossed the Atlantic on the Queen Mary during World War Two for talks with the Americans, he was listed as “Colonel Warden”.

8. Winston Churchill died 70 years to the day after his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, died.

9. Winston Churchill is said to have been the only person whom Field Marshal Montgomery would allow to smoke in his presence.

10. In 1899, Churchill hid in a mine shaft for three days after escaping from a Boer War prison camp.