Sherman Powell : I have a copy of this film for you
24 September 2019
Hi Sherman.

I have a digital copy of this film I can send you.

That's because it's about my family.

Queen Emma is my great grand aunt.

Her sister Phebe Parkinson (played by Rebecca Rigg) is my great grandmother.

Jonas Coe of course was my great great grandfather.

I have just returned from PNG where we buried my parents' ashes next to Phebe and Richard Parkinson in the family cemetery.

Phebe raised my father. Phebe died in a Japanese POW camp in WW2. Dad found her jungle grave af her 60 years and repair dated her remains to be with her husband.

I also visited the grave of the mother of Emma and Phebe - Jonas Coe's first wife Le'utu Johana Coe, who was born into the Samoan royal Malietoa family .. one of the reasons Emma was later nicknamed 'Queen'.

Cheers
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