Christian

In the late 1960s, Harrods liked to live up to its reputation of being the store where you could buy absolutely anything. Amazingly by today's standards, this even included being able purchase a lion cub from the pet department.

Two young Australians living in London, John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke saw a cub in the store, fell in love with it, and bought it.

The cub lived with John and Ace in London, but as cubs will do, it grew quickly, and a year later the pair realised that it just wasn't going to be possible to keep a rapidly growing lion in the city.

They got in touch with George Adamson (of Born Free fame) and agreed to take the lion, who they had named Christian, to Kenya to be introduced to its natural habitat.

Christian was introduced to other lions, was successfully integrated into a pride, and John and Ace returned to London.

One year later, the Australians decided to make a return trip to Kenya, to see if they could visit Christian. They were warned that the lion was a wild animal now, and that they should not expect him to remember them.

This is what happened next.