Nearly a century ago, Charles s disgraced great-uncle, Edward, Prince of Wales enjoyed a lengthy safari with the real-life characters from Out of Africa - some with the morals of White Mischief.
There was a time when the only way it was possible to engage in exotic game hunting in untamed and dangerous corners of the globe was to be called something like Baron Bror ‘Bullet’ von Blixen-Finecke or Lady Grizel ‘Killer’ Cochrane. These professional hunters and adventurers had been sired from long lines of bloodthirsty aristocrats and were often the inspiration for morally dubious fictional characters like Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain. To even locate an account of such hunting required lighting a paraffin lamp and exploring the forbidden section of some country library, blowing the dust from a hessian tome and diving in. Things are somewhat different now; no longer is game hunting limited to those of high birth and conservation is a huge part of why it is allowed to continue. Shooting an ostrich in Africa can be done for as little as £500, and if you are interested in such things a quick bit of searching online will throw up all sorts of options as well as show