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12/5/2005

Last emperor’s Scots tutor revealed in attic pictures

PHOTOGRAPHS chronicling the extraordinary adventures of the Scottish tutor to the last emperor of China – kept for decades in the attic of an Edinburgh school – are to go on show to the public for the first time this month.

Reginald Johnston, the son of a Morningside solicitor, led a remarkable life as diplomat, colonial administrator and tutor to the abdicated boy emperor Puyi. The only European to work inside the Forbidden City, he was portrayed on screen by Peter Oâ€™Toole in the 1987 film The Last Emperor.
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