Helen Duncan

A Druid's Anger

An irate Prime Minister, Winston Churchill reveals his anger over Helen Duncan's treatment in his memo to his wartime Home Secretary Herbert Morrison.

But was this stern outburst just his frustration at legal 'tomfoolery' at a time when all national and international efforts were focused on the looming Normandy Landings?

Some maintain that Churchill, a natural psychic in his own right, who had been ordained as a Druid during a special ceremony at his ancestral home of Blenheim Palace at the turn of the century and no stranger to Spiritualism, was actually defending a religious freedom.

And is it also significant that on his return to power following the immediate post-war Labour Government the ONLY tranche of legislation he permitted to be carried over from the previous administration was the private Parliamentary Bill replacing the archaic 1735 Witchcraft Act under which Mrs. Duncan was 'convicted' by the Fraudulent Mediums Act ?