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The Queen threw three of the red and gold embroidered cushions off the throne on to the marble steps that led up to it.
"Just make yourselves comfortable there," she said. "I'm simply dying to talk to you, and to hear all about your wonderful country and how you got here, and everything, but I have to do justice every morning. Such a bore, isn't it? Do you do justice in your own country?"