The African Prince of Battersea: Prince Olawuji Babalola's story

By RUTHY RICHARDS-LEVI

A tale based on a true story as told to the author by the Prince her father.

At times funny and heartbreaking a beautiful tale interwoven with travel between cultures,continents and colour .

A Modern day fable of our times .

All aspects of life including Illegitimate children ,love, death, heartache, humour and g

• Language: English
• Publisher: yummies partnership
• Release date: Mar 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9781999646431

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THE AFRICAN PRINCE OF BATTERSEA

Mr Babalola

Ruthy Richards-Levi-Babalola

Yummies Partnership. Publishing

Contents

Prince Olowuyi Babalola in Battersea, London.

Title

Disclaimer

Acknowledgments

Thank you for purchasing this book

About the Author

Illustrations and Maps.

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Foreword

1. Introducing His Excellency Prince Olowuyi Babalola

2. Meeting Mrs Marie Mc Hugh

3. Victoria visits Nigeria

4. Welcome to London’s Gatwick Airport

5. St Johns Hospital, Battersea, London.

6. The Doctors’ common room.

7. Operation Day

8. And the Winner is …

9. A Final Goodbye

10. Rachmanism! Time Change

11. Lagos Airport Nigeria

Afterword

Epilogue

Ruthy and Family at a Nigerian Ball.

Prince Olowuyi Babalola in Battersea, London.

Title

The African Prince of Battersea.

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Mr Babalola.

The Legal Stuff…

Copyright

Copyright © 2018 Ruthy Richards-Levi-Babalola

All rights reserved.

The right of Ruthy Richards-Levi-Babalola to be identified as the sole author and illustrator of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 78 of the copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.

The cover photograph used with kind permission of

Ruthy Richards—Levi-Babalola and is that of her son Jonathan the grandson of Prince Olowuyi.

Cover made with help from Artistic experts at SelfPubBookCovers.com

This book is sold subject to the conditions that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the author’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.

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With Grateful Thanks to my Dear Mother,

Mrs Lynette Richards-Lorde, the first legally married wife of the protagonist, for her tremendous support and Love always.

Disclaimer

This book is based on the whole Truth and is a partly fictional creative dramatisation based on this true story, real events, conversations and was drawn from a variety of sources including interviews and published materials.

For dramatic and narrative purposes the book contains fictionalised scenes, composite and representative characters, involving dialogue and time compression.

It reflects the authors family present recollections of experience over time. Some names and characteristics have been changed and some events compressed along with dialogue which has been retold.

Acknowledgments

With Very Special Thanks and praise to my dear friend Mr Kevin Ellis who assisted me with music, advice and humour throughout the three year project. Especially with the written dialogue and in bringing the man servant Julius to life.

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Many Thanks and Every Blessing.

Thank you for purchasing this book

We wish you a happy reading experience.

Here is the second book in the two part series telling the story of our family experiences from the Pale Settlement in Russia to Guyana. It is available in Print,Ebook and shortly audio also. isbn 978-19996464-0-0

About the Author

Yummies Partnership publishing logo is inspired by my toy rabbit given to me on my sojourn aged two in Georgetown, Guyana. My writing style is friendly and open. I enjoy telling stories about real people and how their experiences impact others. There is so much to learn from the life choices of others and there is some humour within the tales also. It was remarkable to do the research for this book including the conversations had with my father in his home. A most interesting person. Feel free to let me know your thoughts and whether my experiences are similar to yours. Best Wishes to you always, Ruthy x

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Illustrations and Maps.

Map of the British Empire c.1950

Sketch depicting Prince Babalola in 1959

Mrs Marie McHugh in 1959

Olowuyi Babalola 1995

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Foreword

Thank you for choosing this unique book.

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This true story, retells the tale of Olowuyi’s own life as told to me by the Prince himself in 2003 in Battersea, London, South-West England.

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The African Prince of Battersea is my late father, Prince Olowuyi Babalola known by all as Mr Babalola.

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He came from Ekiti State, Nigeria and was a Yoruba prince. He came to London in the 1950s and met and married my Mother, Lynette Evangeline Richards-Lorde, who had come via the Orangestad ocean liner from Guyana (British Guiana) in 1959 to train as a State Registered Nurse and State Certified Midwife. At the time my Mother was twenty-six years old. He was thirty-six.

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The child born of this union is Me …the result of their brief and turbulent marriage. After my birth, at the infant age of six weeks old, my Mother, on account of his cruelty and abuse, was faced with no other choice than to return to work and make