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INVITING US INTO HER WILD AND WONDERFUL LIFE VICTORIA ASPINALL TELLS HOW SHE EMBARKED ON A WHOLE NEW ADVENTURE AFTER MARRYING HER CONSERVATIONIST HUSBAND DAMIAN

‘Damian and I love spending time here with the animals. This is the perfect place to be’

From close encounters with giraffes to being greeted by gorillas in their natural habitat, Victoria Aspinall has the air of someone who has spent her entire life surrounded by wild animals.

However, the truth is very different; Victoria only started down her extraordinary path five years ago, after a dinner party at which she met her conservationist husband Damian.

“It is a weird and wonderful life and it is a passion I now share,” says Victoria, 32, welcoming to Port Lympne Reserve in Kent, the 600-acre breeding sanctuary that is home to more than 900 animals. “I grew up in Lancashire, in the middle of the countryside, so I had cats, dogs, horses. I was always good with

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