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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