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Suez: 'Glorious time' in the Cairo embassy
Jennifer Boyle was at the British Embassy in Cairo at the height of the Suez crisis.
Jennifer Boyle was 21 when she arrived at the British Embassy in Cairo at the height of the Suez Crisis.
"Little did I dream that the first meal I would ever have with an ambassador would be sitting in the middle of the desert chewing chicken bones in one's fingers", she writes home.
The work was chaotic, but it was "the time of my life".
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