Word: nanyuki
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Felice Benuzzi, the onetime Italian colonial official who tells the story, was interned by the British in 1941 and sent to Nanyuki, Kenya. Like any other P.W., he hated internment: the demoralizing idleness, the inability to be alone. But his camp was overshadowed by 17,000-ft. Mount Kenya, "a massive, blue-black tooth of sheer rock." To some of the prisoners it became a symbol of freedom...
...Elizabeth took a last walk around the grounds with Philip, then climbed into a car for the drive to Nanyuki Airport. A Dakota flew the royal couple to Uganda, where the same four-engined Argonaut that brought them from London was waiting to carry them home again. A few minutes after the first takeoff, the plane's pilot picked up a radio message of condolence from Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Then, at last, Britain's Queen broke down in sobs...