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Is the Queen's Interest in Horse Racing a Passion?
We've heard a lot about the late queen's interest in, for instance, horse racing. I don't think i've heard a single item where they've talked about her cultural interests. Was this kind of a policy? Is this something that we weren't meant to hear about, or is it just that it simply wasn't a passion? And you know, by the way, no bad thing. If you do a correlation of great monarch cllectors and great monarchs, you get quite an inverse correlation e collecting is, it's quite a kind of greedy thing, if you do it.
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