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Her Majesty Queen Mary, keen tennis enthusiast, went to Wimbledon to watch the tennis tourney for the British Open Championship.

High above the sun blazed down its fiery heat, but the Queen, sitting under her toque in the shade, was unconscious of the torrid atmosphere until the earth shifted and the sun basked in her presence. At this point she got up.

"The Queen is leaving," was the instinctive thought of the spectators, as they scrambled respectfully to their feet. Tennis players, some of them from other nations, stopped their games to wish Her Majesty...

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