Christian, the King's Road Swinging Sixties Lion Cub

There’s a gorgeous article over at the Daily Mail about Christian, a lion cub owned by the hip owners of a London furniture store in the sixties: Christian the lion (named by someone with a Biblical sense of humour) arrived in Chelsea at a time when the King’s Road – home to Mick Jagger – […]

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There's a gorgeous article over at the Daily Mail about Christian, a lion cub owned by the hip owners of a London furniture store in the sixties:

Christian the lion (named by someone with a Biblical sense of humour) arrived in Chelsea at a time when the King's Road - home to Mick Jagger - was the very heart of the Swinging Sixties.

For a year, the Big Cat was part of it all, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at Casserole, a local restaurant, even posing for a Biba fashion advert.

He eventually grew too big to be kept as a pet and was taken to Kenya, where he was rehabilitated into the wild by the 'Lion Man', George Adamson.

I don't think Christian quite challenges Rupert the Pet Rhino for the crown of world's coolest pet, but until some mad geneticist cooks up a turtle sized elephant, Christian will have to be content with second place.

Christian, the lion who lived in my London living room [Daily Mail] (via Neatorama)