King George Tupou VI, Queen Nanasipau'u Tuku'aho and the Tongan royal family. (Supplied: Kingdom of Tonga)
On hot roads that bake under the Tongan sun, a black London taxi cab used to split the traffic like it was parting the Red Sea.
It was the personal vehicle of the late King George Tupou V.
And the carefully polished cab was at complete odds with its surroundings.
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