Being a naturally suspicious man I investigated Tanta, finding some surprises. He had trained in the navy as a radar technician but the real bombshell came on discovering that at one time he was the Royal Navy"s champion at judo, representing GB at the 2008 Olympic Games. Although he and I had exchanged less than a dozen words on the few occasions we had met, his presence gave me added confidence as to Serena"s safety in all senses of the word. Tanta had been dismissed from the navy for improper conduct with a fellow rating, and that rating was not a woman. Not only would Serena be safe so was I.
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The original Harrogate Hall was built in 1503, being extended two hundred years later into what it has now become, a vast, prestigious home of prodigious proportions. When Philip was alive
