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Elizabeth in London. In spite of the pouring rain, Queen Salote insisted on keeping the
hood of her horse-drawn carriage down throughout the long procession as a sign of re-
spect. Salote's symbolic gesture and winning smile earned her legions of adoring fans all
over the world. When Elizabeth visited Tonga soon after, Queen Salote laid on the feast of
the century: an open-air affair that stretched over a hundred meter-long table laden with
tropical fruit, roast pigs, succulent seafood, and countless other leaf-wrapped goodies.
Grainy black-and-white images of the feast spun to newspapers around the globe, and a
legend was born.
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