Yousuf Karsh’s portrait of Sir Winston Churchill - known as The Roaring Lion
(Picture: CAMERA PRESS/Yousuf Karsh)One of the best known portraits of Winston Churchill is suspected to have been stolen from a Canadian hotel and replaced with a replica.
Yousuf Karsh took the black and white photograph, known as the Roaring Lion, in 1941 and it has hung in the Chateau Laurier hotel in capital Ottawa since 1998. The photographer had taken the picture when Sir Winston was in Canada to address parliament during the Second World War.
