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Famed Churchill portrait stolen from hotel and replaced with fake | Canada
Law enforcement in Canada are investigating the “brazen” heist of a famed Sir Winston Churchill portrait following the primary photograph was mysteriously swapped for a bogus. Last 7 days, an employee at the Château Laurier lodge in Ottawa, discovered a little something amiss with a portrait known as the “Roaring Lion” which was taken right after the wartime leader resolved the Canadian parliament in 1941. The body on the photograph didn’t match the other five portraits in the space, all of which experienced been taken by the acclaimed Canadian-Armenian portraitist Yousuf Karsh, whose subjects integrated Martin Luther King Jr, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway and Queen Elizabeth II. The hotel contacted…