Christian - The Lion

Today there will be a slight change in protocol with respect to a News-Briefs posting. With her permission, I am including the request made by a member of Gloria.tv:
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to all my friends at gloria.tv i am sending this link for you to watch because it means a lot to me,and i consider gloria .tv something i love. please watch: it is abot christian the lion reunion.i share this with every one i love. i would upload it,but i don't know how. yours in christ delagotti

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In 1969 a young Australian, John Rendall and his friend Ace Bourke, bought a small lion cub from Harrods pet department, which was then legal. ‘Christian’ was kept in the basement of a furniture shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea, the heart of the swinging sixties. Loved by all, the affectionate cub ate in a local restaurant, played in a nearby graveyard, but was growing fast…

A chance encounter with Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna led to a new life for Christian. He came to live in a huge enclosure and to sleep in a caravan at their Surrey home. Then in 1971 he was flown to Kenya, his ancestral home, and returned to the wild by lion-man George Adamson. Nine months later in 1972, John and Ace returned to Kora in Kenya. This clip is of their reunion at that time.

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