Churchill was famously an animal lover, with special affection for those he knew personally. In his affectionate squiggles to Clementine he depicted himself as a pig. He refused to eat suckling pig as he had raised pigs at Chartwell and claimed to know them. During the First World War when food was in short supply, he refused to carve a goose from his farm at Lullenden, saying: “You’ll have to carve it, Clemmie. He was my friend.”
