Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some of you may remember this picture if you looked at: http://gallery.leica-users.org/My-Photo-Life?page=3 It's Admiral Lord Mountbatten attending the Calgary Stampede as Grand Marshall for the opening ceremonies... 1967 with his daughter on his right. It appears he's about to grab her leg due to a rather bad crash of chuck wagons and horses falling to the ground.. Behind me obviously! :-( Yes I missed it! As it turned out GREG LORENZO saw this photo some time ago and considers it one of his all time favourite Ted Grant pictures. ;-) In any event our LUG team mate "Bruce" in the Netherlands suggested I should send a copy of the picture to the Admiral's daughter if she were still alive after these many long years... 1967-2006. Low and behold Bruce went on the hunt and came up with the post below a short time ago. After all this time, 36 years later here's his post and conversation with the daughter, Countess Mountbatten of Burma. >>>Ted, I just made a call to England, answered by a lady, with a somewhat regal voice. I explained who I was and why I was calling ................ to determine, if she were still alive, the whereabouts of Lady Brabourne, Patricia Knatchbull, daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten. >>Having determined who I was and the LUG connection, the reply came, "I am she". It was the early 60s .................. she just informed me, that she and her father, Lord Louis, were at the Calgary Stampede (it was, you show, 1967). She recalled it well. She would be delighted to receive a print of the photo. Doesn't have to be an enlargement, she said, but she would love to see/have it as a remembrance. Who was the photographer? Ted Grant, says I. Yes, she seemed to recollect the name easily.<<<<<< Now isn't that something else? You just have to love this internet at times. :-) One more reason not to forget film either! It's Tri-x at 400. This picture story is interesting. However, there's an even bigger story to this incident than the photo, it's this LUG family!! It's what Brian Reid has given to each and everyone of us, a connection around the world bringing people together who've never shook hands nor heard a voice. Where we become screen and live friends while we try to help each other in so many ways. If nothing else imagine this scenario: A Canadian photographer took a photo 36 years ago, 1967. A fellow in the Netherlands today 2006, suggests "send a copy of the photo." He tracks down the person in the photo, responds to the Canadian photographer who sends a copy to said subject whom is, the "Countess of Burma!" 36 years later! Absolutely bloody amazing! Thank you Brian Reid for your wonderful LUG family! :-) ted