Knockinaam Lodge, a luxury hotel on the West Coast of Scotland, reportedly played a pivotal role during the planning of D-Day.The Victorian hunting lodge, then a family home, was a secluded bolthole where, in 1944, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Dwight D Eisenhower reportedly met over tea to discuss, in blanket secrecy, Operation Overlord, the forthcoming Allied invasion of Normandy.The Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe slept elsewhere that evening, but Churchill is believed to have stayed for two nights at this gable-ended stone building on the gloriously-named Rhins of Galloway, a hammer-head peninsula shielding the ferry port of Craigryan at Stranraer.
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