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Lunch in the tea-room at Abkhazi Gardens, Victoria
Abkhazia is a very small country (population 245k) on the Black Sea (wedged between Russia and Georgia). Prince Nicholas of Abkhazia was living in exile in Paris in 1922 where he had fled from the Bolshevik revolution, when he met Peggy Pemberton-Carter. They spent some time together and then kept up correspondence afterwards. During WWII,…