prince philip and leonard cohen

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sebmelmoth2003
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prince philip and leonard cohen

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article by charles moore in the spectator :

...As a boy at Eton from 1969, I was invited to conferences at St George’s House, Windsor.

These had been established by the Duke in 1966.

They examined religious issues from a non-denominational point of view and attracted distinguished thinkers. They were open-minded and quite groovy.

I recall a clergyman playing and expounding Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’ to us. Perhaps Prince Philip liked its line: ‘He [Jesus] said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them...’

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-w ... d-religion
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