Experience Churchill’s Darkest Hour
Experience Churchill’s Darkest Hour
#SheInspiresMe Auction 2018
A private tour of the Churchill war rooms with award-winning author and co-producer of Darkest Hour, Anthony McCarten. Anthony will give you and a friend an exclusive insight into the filming and production of Darkest Hour, as well as the film’s Oscar nomination and the ceremony that followed.
An expert tour guide will also accompany you as you walk in Churchill’s footsteps through this underground nerve centre, ensuring that you come away with intricate knowledge on the decisions that allowed Britain’s leaders to plot the allied route to victory during the Second World War.
On a later date, you and one other will have the rare chance to tour Ditchley Park, the idyllic country house and estate that Churchill used as a secret base during the early years of World War II. The tour will culminate in the state bedroom, where he always slept, were you will be served Pol Roger, the same champagne that Churchill would drink whilst he famously conducted meetings from his bed.
This lot will close in our Live Auction and online bidding will close at 12pm on 19th November 2018. Please contact rclarke@womenforwomen.org if you wish to participate in the Live Auction.
About Darkest Hour
Darkest Hour is a 2017 war drama film directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten. It stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and is an account of his early days as Prime Minister, as Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht swept across Western Europe, threatening to defeat the United Kingdom during World War II.
The German advance leads to friction at the highest levels of government between those who would make a peace treaty with Adolf Hitler and Churchill, who refused.
The Filmmaker
Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand-born novelist, filmmaker, and playwright.
A three time Academy Award nominated and double BAFTA winning screenwriter and film producer, he produced and wrote the screenplays for The Theory of Everything, which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and Darkest Hour, which earned him another Best Picture nomination.
About Ditchley Park
Ditchley Park is one of the England’s finest houses, having a rich history as an idyllic retreat for royalty and power since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Churchill famously used Ditchley as a secret base during the early years of World War II, meeting presidential envoy Harry Hopkins here in his efforts to win American support. Access to the exclusive Ditchley Park is by invitation-only.
Kindly donated by Anthony McCarten and The Ditchley Foundation.
Terms and Conditions
- Both experiences must take place in January or February 2019 on a mutually convenient date.