King Charles III on Friday danced with Anne Frank's stepsister, who survived Nazi concentration camps and has spent decades promoting peace.
Eva Schloss, 93, and the king danced together to celebrate Hanukkah at a Jewish community centre in north London.
“He was sweet, he really took part, he seemed to enjoy it,” she said. “He was very relaxed.”
King Charles toured the JW3 community centre and spoke to schoolchildren who were packing presents and food hampers for families around Camden.
Dame Vivian Duffield said she founded JW3 to give the Jewish community in London a place to gather to protect and celebrate their heritage.
Ms Schloss said: “Unfortunately, there is still anti-Semitism — people say Jewish people should go to Israel, this is England — but I hope we are getting over these prejudices.
“England is one of the rich countries in the world and we have to struggle with poverty and I hope King Charles will be able to manage this situation a little bit.
“I hope he will help make things easier for everybody and fight racism. I think he is a very good king.”
As King Charles visited the kitchen where a group of young refugees were baking biscuits for the Christmas hampers, one of the cooks fell to her knees with giddiness.
She said afterwards: “To be honest, I can't explain the feeling. To see him live, I was like, oh my God. It was a nice feeling and I'm happy I was able to meet him.”
JW3's chief executive Raymond Simonson said the king arrived with a car boot full of rice and tinned tuna to go into the donation packets.
“The volunteers came and took it out the car and packed it up. That will stay with me for a while,” he said.
“There are 200 households we support around the Camden area and they don't have enough food at Christmas and now they have food from the king as well as from our volunteers.”
Most people in the British-Jewish community, he added, come from refugee backgrounds and meeting the king is an endorsement of their place in British society.
“When you see the king visiting and saying happy Hanukkah, it says to people that the person in the highest seat accepts us,” he continued.
“It has been 365 years since we were readmitted after being expelled and to know that we are secure here and not in danger … that means so much to people.”
Key facilities
- Olympic-size swimming pool with a split bulkhead for multi-use configurations, including water polo and 50m/25m training lanes
- Premier League-standard football pitch
- 400m Olympic running track
- NBA-spec basketball court with auditorium
- 600-seat auditorium
- Spaces for historical and cultural exploration
- An elevated football field that doubles as a helipad
- Specialist robotics and science laboratories
- AR and VR-enabled learning centres
- Disruption Lab and Research Centre for developing entrepreneurial skills
The Facility’s Versatility
Between the start of the 2020 IPL on September 20, and the end of the Pakistan Super League this coming Thursday, the Zayed Cricket Stadium has had an unprecedented amount of traffic.
Never before has a ground in this country – or perhaps anywhere in the world – had such a volume of major-match cricket.
And yet scoring has remained high, and Abu Dhabi has seen some classic encounters in every format of the game.
October 18, IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders tied with Sunrisers Hyderabad
The two playoff-chasing sides put on 163 apiece, before Kolkata went on to win the Super Over
January 8, ODI, UAE beat Ireland by six wickets
A century by CP Rizwan underpinned one of UAE’s greatest ever wins, as they chased 270 to win with an over to spare
February 6, T10, Northern Warriors beat Delhi Bulls by eight wickets
The final of the T10 was chiefly memorable for a ferocious over of fast bowling from Fidel Edwards to Nicholas Pooran
March 14, Test, Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe by six wickets
Eleven wickets for Rashid Khan, 1,305 runs scored in five days, and a last session finish
June 17, PSL, Islamabad United beat Peshawar Zalmi by 15 runs
Usman Khawaja scored a hundred as Islamabad posted the highest score ever by a Pakistan team in T20 cricket
The story in numbers
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This is how many recognised sects Lebanon is home to, along with about four million citizens
450,000
More than this many Palestinian refugees are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon, with about 45 per cent of them living in the country’s 12 refugee camps
1.5 million
There are just under 1 million Syrian refugees registered with the UN, although the government puts the figure upwards of 1.5m
73
The percentage of stateless people in Lebanon, who are not of Palestinian origin, born to a Lebanese mother, according to a 2012-2013 study by human rights organisation Frontiers Ruwad Association
18,000
The number of marriages recorded between Lebanese women and foreigners between the years 1995 and 2008, according to a 2009 study backed by the UN Development Programme
77,400
The number of people believed to be affected by the current nationality law, according to the 2009 UN study
4,926
This is how many Lebanese-Palestinian households there were in Lebanon in 2016, according to a census by the Lebanese-Palestinian dialogue committee
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Fixtures
Sunday January 5 - Oman v UAE
Monday January 6 - UAE v Namibia
Wednesday January 8 - Oman v Namibia
Thursday January 9 - Oman v UAE
Saturday January 11 - UAE v Namibia
Sunday January 12 – Oman v Namibia
UAE squad
Ahmed Raza (captain), Rohan Mustafa, Mohammed Usman, CP Rizwan, Waheed Ahmed, Zawar Farid, Darius D’Silva, Karthik Meiyappan, Jonathan Figy, Vriitya Aravind, Zahoor Khan, Junaid Siddique, Basil Hameed, Chirag Suri
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