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Diary Australia

Mother country diary

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

Being a wife has privileges. They’re called in-laws. And it was within that spousal remit that I recently headed to London to attend a splendid dinner at the even more splendid Mansion House hosted by my father-in-law, John Clemence, QPM, a mad-proud Englishman and chairman of the City of London branch of the Royal Society of St George.

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