Elizabeth and her advisers organised expensive gift-giving of elaborate pieces of jewellery and exquisite articles of clothing, seeing to it that the gifts offered to her at the new year were, from year to year, increasingly extravagant, and increasingly matched to particular requirements for Elizabeth's court dress, communicated to the gift-giver well in advance.

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The following year, Polo made a similar deal to dress on-court officials at Wimbledon, in England.

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Mr Yates had been on police bail following an incident 13 days earlier when he stole 35 pairs of shoes and a new dress from her home, the court was told.

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He made his victims dress in Victorian clothing before removing it and committing indecent acts, the court was told.

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