A British man held captive as a hostage in Lebanon for almost five years recounted on Monday how Queen Elizabeth invited him to stay after his release, a dramatic change from being chained to a wall to dining with royalty.
Then an envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Terry Waite was in Beirut in January 1987, during Lebanon's civil war, attempting to negotiate the release of British hostages held by the Islamic Jihad group, when he was taken hostage himself.
