But in a boob-tube style purple sequinned tasselled dress, seven-and-a-half stone Victoria looked slight in comparison to the other girls.

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Find red tagine presentation dishes, linen tablecloths with pompoms, twin mini tagines for salt and pepper, tasselled silk napkin holders and more.

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He might well have spent his life as a Washington lawyer, one of the well-remunerated thousands with their briefcases and tasselled loafers.

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They might be carrying guns, they might be dressed in khaki uniforms with gold-tasselled epaulets but they are an honour guard, not an army, for this is not a state - at least not in the eyes of America and much of the world.

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