Posters and awnings of the royal couple can be seen all over Madrid, proudly decorating shop windows and hanging from lamp posts lining the promenades.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Spain revels in feel-good wedding

Then there was a report just before Christmas 1990 to say that Albanian students had been found hanging from lamp standards in Duras and I thought that even by Albanian standards this is going too far - this was a Yugoslavian agency report and I knew the Albanians and Yugoslavs didn't get on.

BBC: Bill Hamilton on Albania

At the back of the shop, dim but for a single lamp hanging from the ceiling, there were a few unvarnished wooden tables.

NEWYORKER: Alone