Winston Churchill's blood to be auctioned

Ever wanted to own a piece of history? If you aren’t squeamish, a UK auction house might have just the thing.

Duke’s auction house will auction a vial of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill's blood, taken during a hospital stay in 1962, three years before his death.

According to CNN, Churchill had fallen out of bed and fractured a hip, necessitating a multiweek stay at Middlesex Hospital. The blood was drawn by nursing student Patricia Fitzgibbon, but the sample was never used and the hospital was set to dispose of it when Fitzgibbon asked to keep it. Before her death, Fitzgibbon gave the vial to a friend, who has decided to sell it.

Marking the 50th year since his death, the blood of the man best known for his leadership of Britain during World War II, will go up for auction March 12.

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