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A Vital European Bridge

Posted on July 10, 2017 in the Blog, Misc category

  A true story I owe to my late Spanish mother, a post-war immigrant to the UK , involves  a state visit of the the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, to the UK in October 1954. I was a young child then and with one my first life-time  passions that of watching the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. The precision of the proud British soldiers in red coats  and the uplifting music of their band stirred my imagination, making me feel one of them, as if I’ve stepped into …

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