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Prince Philip’s Indelible ‘Marks’ in Sri Lanka Source:Thuppahis Photo courtesy of my old student pal Piyasiri Wickramasekara ….more details below The Old 1935 Standard Nine said to be purchased by Prince Philip when serving in the Royal Navy in Ceylon in 1935 and now placed in the Museum of the Galle Face Hotel –— Pix courtesy of Bruce Rawlings [see below] …. However, Prince Philip was born in 1921 and could not have been driving cars at that moment — so, someone else has concoted a tale that has been swallowed hook, line and majestic sinker. Pix courtesy of Kumar Kirinde PERADENIYA UNIVERSITY and the ROYAL Visit of INAUGURATION It does not demand any deep acumen for one to deduce that the induction of the British Royals was ‘engineered’ by the founding father of Peradeniya University, Sir Ivor Jennings and the Duke’s hand here was a companion act to the tamasha surrounding ...