Yet how could one not be angered by the treatment of more than 150, 000 children who were forcibly relocated from Britain to corners of its empire and commonwealth - a practice that continued until the late 1960s?

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But she dreams of building Watering Can Press into a mini-empire in children's publishing.

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Angela Leong became the largest single shareholder of SJM after Stanley Ho distributed much of his business empire among his four wives and 16 surviving children.

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And it is probably no coincidence that he has begun expanding overseas and becoming more 'public' just as his five children have come of age and can start running the different parts of his empire.

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With four wives and 17 children, choosing a successor to take over the sprawling empire and considerable wealth of Chinese billionaire Stanley Ho Hung Sun was always gong to be a dicey proposition.

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Many parents were informed by officials that their children had been adopted by British families, when they had actually been shipped abroad - castaways of the empire.

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