Fast forward a few years, and the King of Kensington gets drafted.  He goes to Wiesbaden in Germany, where the Americans have a base.  Wiesbaden was left remarkably untouched during WWII, Reich Marshal Hermann Goering (who graduated law in Wiesbaden before the war) having made a deal with General Eisenhower during the war to preserve Wiesebaden, which was a Roman spa town used by the Nazis during the war and favored by the Americans afterwards.  Goering's logic was simple.  Why destroy the beautiful town?  If Germany loses the war, the Americans would get it and be able to enjoy it the way the Nazis had.  Goering's daughter Edda worked as a nurse in rehabilitation clinic in Wiesbaden after the war.  I don't know if the King of Kensington ever met her, but you never know! The King of Kensington found himself at home in Wiesbaden, not because it was the army, but because the habits he formed back in the 'hood were still useful. Si vis pacem, para be...