

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
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&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Margaret Marshall had known Frederick Williamson for
much of her life but it wasn^t until the English summer of 1932, when he was
home on leave from India, that they met again and fell in love. Less than a
year later she joined him in the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, where he was now
Political Officer for that region, and they were married.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">"Derrick," writes Mrs. Williamson,
"belongs to that rare and happy breed who are lucky enough to find their
true vocation in life." He loved his job as a representative of the
British Imperial Government to these ancient Buddhist kingdoms, and he loved
their people and way of life. And she quickly fell into step with him. Three
times they traveled on tours of duty throughout the rugged and magnificent
Himalayas. First to Bhutan, green and lush, where she developed a close and
lasting friendship with the Royal Family. And then on and up, towards the crest
of the main Himalayan range and into Tibet, "...a stark, almost primeval
landscape, yet strangely beautiful..." Finally, the long-awaited holy city
of Lhasa, their meetings with the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, their visits to the
three great monasteries that housed between them some twenty thousand monks, and,
again, abiding friendships. But her newfound life was to come to a painful
halt, for derrick became ill and died during their second stay in Lhasa in
1935. "In a sense," Mrs. Williamson writes fifty years later,
"that brief period was my life..."</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">In these memoirs, she poignantly portrays that life
and paints a broader picture of the life that was also to come to a painful and
terrible halt twenty-five years later when the Chinese took over Tibet.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>



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