The Château Laurier says it’s been able to narrow down a time frame of when it believes a famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill was stolen from its walls: sometime between Christmas Day last year and Jan. 6.
The hotel appealed for help from the public yesterday after a staff member noticed the photo wasn’t hung correctly over the weekend, and an inspection revealed that the portrait was a copy, not an original.
Photos taken by guests inside the hotel’s Reading Lounge confirm that the original was still hanging on Dec. 25, but a photo taken just 12 days later shows the fake….