So the royal partyfound the West African "heat appalling, the humidity gross" and all but the Princewere struck down by "violent diarrhoea" (in fact, G. One is the expected sidelight thrown on British Africa, Asia, Australia and Canadaat work (and play) in Philip Ziegler's account of all those weighty Empire toursundertaken by the then Prince of Wales between 19. Thatcould be so - arguably with two exceptions. Simpson remains with us, especially the oldermembers of OSPA, there might seem on the surface to be little relevance in includingin our magazine a notice of this superb new biography of King Edward VIII. However continuing a deep and derisive 'I remember it well' interest in theaffaire of Edward and 'that' Mrs. Kirk-Greene(Nigeria 1950-66, lecturer in Modern History of Africa, Oxford University)
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