Matt Bevan

And, well, I'll read you the account that comes from Robert Hopkins, who was a photographer who was with the American delegation.

He says...

At six o'clock the following morning, when I came down to the main entrance hall, I was astonished to find, just outside the door to the ante room, a huge lemon tree.

I counted some 200 pieces of fruit on it, which Stalin had ordered flown in from his native Georgia, so the president could serve his martinis with a twist.

Yeah, well, that's the fascinating thing.

So the British were staying in a nearby palace, not the same Lavardia Palace.

They were in the Vorontsov Palace, which is nearby.

And Churchill then, after the whole thing, returned to England and then told a story about what had happened there.

And one of the stories was written down from Churchill's report of what he had experienced in Yalta.

He gave a vivid picture of Yalta.

The Russians had made a tremendous effort to prepare for their reception in two of the old palaces of the nobility of Tsarist times.

All right, now this is a very different story now.

It is.

So we've got two lemon trees here.

Different palaces as well.

And a different palace.

Yes.

Yes, the British officer had asked for a lemon and had been provided the following morning with a lemon tree outdoors.

The first lemon tree was in the hallway, ready for Roosevelt to turn into martinis, but now we've got two lemon trees outside the British Palace.

Yes, so Churchill famously wrote massive tomes about the Second World War after the fact.