Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor's Note to Drink “Unlimited” Alcohol in Prohibition America

Well, isn’t that special? Let’s have a little chat about Winston Churchill, a man with quite the affinity for the spirits. Now, we all know how some folks just can’t resist a little tipple, and it seems Mr. Churchill was no exception. With his aristocratic airs, he made sure his days were sprinkled with a bit of champagne and brandy. And would you believe it, his private secretary Jack Colville even said he used whiskey as a mouthwash. My, my, we’re getting a bit fancy, aren’t we?

But here’s the juicy bit: when Prohibition was all the rage in the United States, banning all those naughty alcoholic beverages, our dear Mr. Churchill, as resourceful as ever, found a way around it. Yes, indeed! In 1931, after a little mishap with a car in the U.S., a doctor, bless his heart, wrote him a prescription for alcohol to aid in his recovery. A medical exemption for alcohol during Prohibition, can you imagine?

So there he was, the future Prime Minister, sipping his “medicine” in a land where everyone else was trying to stay on the straight and narrow. It just goes to show, where there’s a will, there’s a way. And in Mr. Churchill’s case, the way led straight to a glass. How convenient!