My dad, "first boy," with the queen mother in Rhodesia 1953

The way he tells it she noticed a student trying to hide his cigarette and said something along the lines of "tell the young man he is perfectly welcome to smoke in my presence."

And not a single faculty member dared contradict the queen mother, though smoking was not allowed.

Edit: 1959!

u/lontanadascienza — 1 month ago