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lion and his friend
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....