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would try to read it when he had time. It was a had special seats fairly near the stage whilst the
good opportunity for me also to thank Great families in the public gallery could see the
Britain, through him, for saving my life. He said ceremony from afar.
“Well I didn’t do anything. I wasn’t even born”.
When I answered that he represented the country How can I sum up the experience? In one way it
he just nodded and shrugged modestly. Paul said was a sort of fairy tale: refugee child comes to
that he thought the real heroes of the the UK and 80 years later meets the future
Kindertransport were the parents who gave up monarch and is able to thank him for what his
their children and then the prince talked about country did. I felt very emotional about the
his own young children and said he didn’t know meeting especially as I remember how important
what he would do in such a situation. After 10 the monarchy was to us during the war and also
minutes or so, he was whisked away for his next because at one time I was a soldier on active
appointment at Ohel Yizkor. There Paul and I service in the British army. Another circle closed
at age 86!
A Princely Handshake
“Postcards to a Little Boy”
Changing Hands
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