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Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen’s cousin and an honorary military patron, has been caught in a media sting offering to sell South Korean gold traders his royal access to the Russian Kremlin.
Prince Michael, 78, who is also a member of the Russian aristocracy and is related to the last Tsar, Nicholas II, told undercover reporters posing as South Korean investment executives he was “very excited” to work with them, including making a speech from his Kensington Palace home in exchange for US$200,000, and making introductions on a future trip to Russia in exchange for $50,000. The idea was to help the company emphasize the links between gold and monarchy.
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“If it was easy,” he says, “everyone would do it.”
Such is the philosophy of the singular Mike Trauner, a former Canadian soldier grievously wounded in Afghanistan, who’s about to compete for a spot in the Tokyo Paralympic Games.
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Trauner, 41, lost both lower legs to a buried bomb that was detonated as he passed over it during a foot patrol west of Kandahar on Dec. 5, 2008. He’s undergone 18 surgeries since then, battled through bouts of anger and depression, learned to walk on two prosthetic legs and competed in the 2017 Invictus Games.
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“If it was easy,” he says, “everyone would do it.”
Such is the philosophy of the singular Mike Trauner, a former Canadian soldier grievously wounded in Afghanistan, who’s about to compete for a spot in the Tokyo Paralympic Games.
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Trauner, 41, lost both lower legs to a buried bomb that was detonated as he passed over it during a foot patrol west of Kandahar on Dec. 5, 2008. He’s undergone 18 surgeries since then, battled through bouts of anger and depression, learned to walk on two prosthetic legs and competed in the 2017 Invictus Games.