One of the first of these will be with Keenan Schleyer, who will be on the tarmac at Ottawa International Airport when the royal couple touch down.

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At the same time, the royal family does touch the real world, albeit the part of it inhabited by what remains of the landed upper classes: a life of moors and deer-stalking, of summers under Scottish rain, dogs and horses, the church, the armed forces, the same few boarding schools and the right sort of nightclubs.

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Until March 30th 2008, visitors to the Royal Botanic Gardens can touch, walk round and peer through (polite notices discourage climbing over) the massive bronzes and one white fibreglass created by Moore in the last 30 years of his life.

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Royal Caribbean likes to build models so people can see and touch tangible things and know what they are going to do.

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