A Lion Called Christian - The True Story of Three Friends and their Remarkable Reunion

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In 2008 a YouTube clip became an internet phenomenon. It showed the emotional reunion of two young men and their pet lion, Christian, after they had left him in Africa to be introduced into his rightful home in the wild. Bourke and Rendall visited London from Australia in 1969 and bought a boisterous lion cub in Harrods. But Christian soon grew from cuddly cub to King of the Kings Road. The only way to avoid him being incarcerated in a zoo was to place him under the expert care of George Adamson in Kenya. They didn't return to see Christian for a year.