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My Life: A Memoir
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It is April 1998. I am in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, by now a democracy free of the Soviet Union and Communism. Moreover, I am sitting with the President of Hungary, having just presented my credentials as British Ambassador to his country. I am excited and a little overwhelmed. Everyone is calling me ‘Excellency’ which I am not (yet) used to. I have a chauffeur outside, in a British racing green Jaguar which flies the Union Jack, waiting to drive me to the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior where I shall lay a wreath. Is this really me? How on earth did all this happen? I was just an ordinary boy from South London with no expectations of anything as a child or even a young adult. What happened? It is a curious tale: of bad judgements, good timing and luck. Here is my story.
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Anita Rose’s life was shaped by three transformational events in her early teens: the outbreak of war, her being sent from London to Chicago to live with an uncle and aunt and a jealous cousin, and the drowning of her father when a transatlantic ship carrying 90 child evacuees was torpedoed by a German submarine. This is the story of her survival and subsequent triumph.
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