Winston's macaw talks like an Aussie

"SHE WAS at Winston Churchill's side during Britain's darkest hour. And now Charlie the parrot is 104 years old...and still cursing the Nazis.

"Her favourite sayings were 'F*** Hitler' and 'F*** the Nazis'. And even today, 39 years after the great man's death, she can still be coaxed into repeating them with that unmistakable Churchillian inflection.

"Many an admiral or peer of the realm was shocked by the tirade from the bird's cage during crisis meetings with the PM.

"But it always brought a smile to the war leader's face.

"Churchill bought Charlie – giving him a boy's name despite the fact she was female – in 1937.

"She took pride of place in a bizarre menagerie of pets including lambs, pigs, cattle, swans and, at one point, a leopard.

"He immediately began to teach her to swear – particularly in company – and she is keeping up the tradition today.

"The blue and gold macaw is believed to be Britain's oldest bird."
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Note: F*** is a word not found in Australian parrots' dictionaries, as I found a month or so ago. I was at a christening and, bored out of my scone, sidled off to have a chat with a poor caged cockatoo who asked me what I fucking wanted.