How a Syrian refugee chef met Britain's King Charles


Imad Alarnab, a chef and restaurant owner who fled Syria in 2015, working at one of his restaurants in central London. — Photos: Ben Stansall/AFP

Pots clanged and oil sizzled inside the London kitchen of Syrian chef Imad Alarnab, as the former refugee who fled his country's civil war recalled hosting King Charles III.

When the chef left his war-torn homeland in 2015, he never imagined that one day he would watch as cameras flashed and wide-eyed crowds greeted the monarch arriving at his Soho restaurant last year.

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