It's amazing how often events from our distant past pop back into our minds. While working as a foreign reporter for an American TV network in the late 1980s, I was in , an isolated cluster of Polynesian islands that straddles the international date line. I remember looking out of my hotel window and realising that to my left it was Tuesday, and to my right it was Wednesday.
While there, I interviewed the Tongan king, George Tupou IV. Beforehand, a courtier asked me not to refer to his majesty’s 33 stone physique.
I reassured him that it would never cross my mind to be so rude. But, early on in our interview, the monarch chose to touch on his size. ‘I’m on a diet,’ he confided, with a bashful smile.
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