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37. What have I wished for in front of everyone? This I will say to you: a spirit-filled representation of the the queen's childhood and youth. Certainly in the truest sense, the female years of apprenticeship. Perhaps not unlike Natalie's years of apprenticeship. Natalie seems to me like a fortuitous portrait of the queen. Ideals must be alike.