Video: 'Sir Winston Churchill Resigns (1955) | British Pathé'

(Tuesday, April 5, 1955, Churchill left the for Buckingham Palace at 4:22 p.m. and returned at 5:15 p.m. GMT, having spent 41 minutes with Queen Elizabeth II) — Sir Winston Churchill, 80, resigned today as British prime minister, aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally.

Video: 'Churchill Resigns - Decades TV Network'

Tomorrow, Queen Elizabeth II would summon Sir Anthony Eden to Buckingham Palace and ask him to form a new government.