Winston Churchill’s famous black and white photograph “The Roaring Lion” was stolen from the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa and replaced with a copy. Reported by this TV channel CTV refers to hotel staff.
According to the Managing Director of Chateau Laurier Geneviève Dumas, the painting arrived in the hotel’s reading room in 1998 and has been his pride ever since.
“We are deeply disturbed by this insolent move,” said Dumas.
Over the weekend, hotel staff noticed that the photo was not hung properly, and then discovered that the portrait frame did not match the other frames hung in the reading room.
“After further investigation and confirmation from Joseph Karsh’s mansion, it was discovered that the photograph of Winston Churchill had been replaced with a copy of the original,” Chateau Laurier said in a statement. Said.
The Roaring Lion was photographed by Canadian photographer Yusuf Karsh in December 1941, after the British Prime Minister’s speech in Parliament. The painting became one of Churchill’s most famous photographs ever taken.
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