Blanco-White Series: The bulldog and the bull: Churchill and Spain. Lecture by Dr. Peter Martland Throughout a long life of public service Sir Winston Churchill had an equally long, but not well known direct and indirect relationship to Spain; for example, not only was he closely related to the Duke of Alba, he also took part in the Spanish colonial war in Cuba. However, this relationship came to a head in the Second World War when as Prime Minister he…