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Tuesday, 5 February 2008

The Queen’s small talk

Posted on 11:37 by Unknown
I don’t know how she does it.I was watching a documentary about the Queen. She was in Estonia, of all places, and was being introduced to 200 people at a reception. The British Ambassador to Estonia was flapping around – “This gentlemen is the inventor of the philharmonic chamber choir; this lady provides foreign policy advice to the prime minister” – and there she was, making small talk with
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