Churchill’s favourite dog was a very different canine friend, Rufus, who accompanied him to Newfoundland to meet Franklin D Roosevelt in 1941. So why is Rufus not remembered as the embodiment of modern Britishness?
The answer is simple. Rufus was a poodle.
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