Rab Butler novel "The Big One", leading to his assassination by resistance forces. In the alternative history novel "Dominion" by C. J. Sansom, World War II ended in June 1940 when the British government under Lord Halifax signed a peace treaty with Germany in Berlin. In November 1952, Butler was Foreign Secretary in the Cabinet of Lord Beaverbrook. He is portrayed by Michael Culkin in the Netflix series "The Crown". Rab Butler Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), generally known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was
What the Butler Saw (The Avengers) What the Butler Saw (The Avengers) "What the Butler Saw" is the twenty-second episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series "The Avengers", starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. It originally aired on ABC on 25 February 1966. The episode was directed by Bill Bain and written by Philip Levene. A butler asks for a pay rise and another butler, Benson, is hailed and hands a gun on a plate to a hidden man in a chair to kill the butler, whose body is then dropped in a lake. Steed visits a barber for a