Subtle dig from the queen to chimp? [View All]

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"As part of a special display of American memorabilia in the picture gallery of the palace, Mr Bush was invited to examine a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
With the topic of campaigns to free subjugated peoples from tyranny uppermost in many minds, the story of American slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe was politely pointed out to Mr Bush by the Queen, with the verdict of one of her predecessors on American civilisation. The extract from Queen Victoria's diary on the novel, briefly perused by Mr Bush and his wife, Laura, read: "To what can human nature descend ... It quite pains me."

But Mr Bush was plainly in no mood for historical comparisons as his tour of the royal art collection got under way. "

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