The harpsichord, a table-size Renaissance favorite, was cleverly reengineered as a boxlike model called a virginal (in tribute to Queen Elizabeth I) that one person could fold up and carry.

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Welcomed by about 1, 000 well-wishers, a military band and tri-service guard of honour, the Queen was given a porcelain model of the Brandenburg Gate and the duke a wristwatch by President Kohler and his wife, Eva Luise.

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The lady concerned was respectable enough, but in Spanish eyes no future queen: a Norwegian speaking little Spanish, a commoner and a model, no less, who, in honest pursuit of her profession, had been photographed oh, the shame of it in her underwear.

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