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A necessary friendship

In 1954 When I was a one year old  , my Spanish  mother took me to see a bit of Royal pageantry  near Buckingham Palace on the occasion of Emperor Haile Selassie’s state visit to the UK. So my mother told me  many years later, she arrived to find that the crowds had built up,   led by a line of uniformed English nannies with their young charges occupying the first row giving on to the main square from the side of St James’s Park. Undeterred, my mother gently moved her …

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