The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 13th, 2005
Byline: ELIZABETH SANDERSON
VIRGINIA MCKENNA is unlikely to forget the last time she saw Joy Adamson, the Kenyan game warden she portrayed so movingly in the film Born Free.
To cinema audiences throughout the world Virginia was Joy, the wildlife conservationist at the centre of the story of Elsa, a three-day-old orphaned lion cub she found starving and close to death before at last - but only after many heartbreaking adventures - releasing her back into the wild.
The meeting took place not on the sun-baked plains of the Serengeti, where they had spent so much time together working with wi...
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