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 and sit side by side on their thrones, while lords and ladies and ambassadors from other lands came to pay them homage, and they had to smile with their lips for the sake of politeness, but there was no joy in their hearts, And that is one of the greatest disadvantages of being a King or a Queen, that one has always to hide one’s feelings.

Now it happened one day that the Queen went to her bath, and having dismissed her ladies, she descended the