The cigar smoked by Churchill that’s up for auction

A cigar smoked by Sir Winston Churchill is predicted to fetch hundreds of pounds when it goes up for auction in June.

The wartime leader gave a half-smoked cigar to Hugh Stonehewer-Bird, consul general in Rabat, Morocco, after attending a dinner party in 1944.

Mr Stonehewer-Bird kept the cigar in a glass jar until his death in 1973.

His family are now selling the piece of memorabilia after 50 years of looking after it.

It will be auctioned with Derbyshire-based Hansons Auctioneers on June 16 with a guide price of £600 to £900.

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