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This article is dated 2013 - Makes no difference it shows how some think in Britain. Would you believe that some people wanted Winston Churchill not on the £5 note, in case it offended Germany. Yes and more - Not sure on the date this happened. Comments ~ [E] Bank of England bosses thought twice about putting Sir Winston Churchill on the new £5 note – because they didn’t want to upset the Germans. Officials warned Sir Mervyn King, then Governor of the Bank of England, that Churchill’s wartime record might make him highly controversial, documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday show. The same officials also insisted on carrying out a background check on Jane Austen, the prim spinster author of Pride And Prejudice who will appear on the £10 note from 2017, to reassure themselves there were ‘no issues in her private life’. Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456335/Bank-nearly-banned-new-5-note-Churchill-case-upset-Germans--officials-worried-Jane-Austen-private-life.html#ixzz3A7MVeQK7 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:42:16 +0000

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