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purejuice ([personal profile] purejuice) wrote2011-06-10 09:26 pm

The Queen Meets 188-Year-Old Tu'i Malila, the Oldest Living Animal


Tonga, 1954. I think I detect a glint of empathy in her eye.
http://www.tongaturismo.info/rt/index-e.htm


Her hostess is the 6'3" Queen Salote, the only royal at Elizabeth's coronation who did not have the top put up on her carriage in the procession to the ceremony. It was raining, and Salote said if the people can come out and stand in the rain for this, so can I.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Fasi_fakafonua.mid

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