Edward VIII - The Lion King | Documentary 2013

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The inspiring true story of how England's future King Edward VIII (later the Duke of Windsor) became a conservationist, shooting Africa's wild game with cameras instead of guns. Film footage — some of it shot by Edward and which has never been seen in public — has been unearthed in the royal archives and shows the then Prince of Wales on his first safari in 1928. When he returned to London he became the first of a long line of royals to become patron of an animal rights charity and made a rousing public speech against large-scale killing.