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Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants (V)
Vining,
Elizabeth Gray |
| From 1946 to 1950 she was tutor to the then
crown prince and present emperor of Japan, Akihito. Her father was John
Gordon Gray, was a native of Aberdeen. Her story parallels that of The
King and I, as she was the first foreigner permitted inside the living
quarters of the Imperial Palace and was, perhaps, closer to Akihito than
anyone else outside the imperial household. The emperor still keeps in
touch with Mrs. Vining. The late Emperor Hirohito said of her, "If
ever anything I did has been a success, it was bringing Mrs. Vining
here.". |
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