 Throughout the summer of 1941 Lang considered retirement . His main concern was that a Lambeth Conference – " perhaps the most fateful Lambeth Conference ever held " – would need to be called soon after the war . Lang felt that he would be too old to lead it and that he should make way for a younger man , preferably William Temple . On 27 November he informed the prime minister , Winston Churchill , of his decision to retire on 31 March 1942 . His last official act in office , on 28 March , was the confirmation of Princess Elizabeth . 
