The Flying PrinceOn a still March day in 1940, a sporting hero perished. He had lived fast and died young, as a flyer on the rugby field and as a pilot in the Royal Air Force, killed in the service of his adopted country. He was a refugee from a noble family in Russia who fought to be accepted as, and live the life of, a quintessential Englishman. His story is unmatched in sporting history for its agony and ecstasy, dislocation and vindication, love and loss. This is

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bureaucratic legacy

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The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called home

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