Hugh Lunghi Net Worth

Hugh Lunghi Net Worth is
$200,000

Hugh Lunghi Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Hugh Lunghi (August 3, 1920 – March 14, 2014) was a British military interpreter and veteran of World War II. He served as an interpreter for Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the war, often accompanying Churchill to summits with other world leaders. Lunghi was one of the last living participants of the "Big Three" meetings between Allied leaders at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam.Lunghi was the first British soldier to enter Hitler's bunker in Berlin in 1945. Soviet troops, who were guarding the bunker, had granted Lunghi permission to enter. He kept one volume of Hitler's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie from the bunker as a momento.Lunghi was born at the British Legation in Persia on August 3, 1920. His father, Phillip Lunghi, was an economic adviser at the legation. His mother, Helena, was an Anglo-Russian. The Lunghi family returned to the United Kingdom when Hugh Lunghi was ten months old. His mother taught him Russian. Lunghi attended Abingdon School, Oxfordshire, until 1939, where he was Head Boy and captained the 1st XV at rugby for a record three consecutive years. Lunghi studied Greek and Latin at the University of Oxford.Hugh Lunghi's first wife was Helen Kaplan; the couple had one daughter. In April 1950, he married his second wife, Renée Banks, with whom he had three daughters. The Lunghi family moved to Fleet, Hampshire, in 1960. He became a longtime parishioner of St Phillip & St James, as well as All Saints, in Fleet.Lunghi died on March 14, 2014, at the age of 93. His wife, Renée, died in 1992. He was survived by his three daughters.