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Several times each year the Queen gives afternoon tea parties at which guests are
served tiny cakes filled with cream from her own cows
*
Cakes and sandwiches are brought
in by footmen, yet you never see the Queen touch a thing
*
She simply sits beside a big silver
plate, pouring cups of tea for everyone and carefully avoiding the cakes
*
At cocktail parties the Queen moves from group to group, chatting informally, and
manages to make one glass of diet(
节食
)drink to last an entire evening
*
Tours
abroad are difficult
because
hosts(
主人
)seem
to
believe
the warmth
of
their
welcome must be shown with wonderful state banquets(
宴会
)
*
But the Queen has perfected
the art of appearing to enjoy her meal without actually eating much
*
During
one
visit
to
the
Pacific
islands
of
Tonga,
a
specially-prepared
dinner
was
arranged in a hut made of wood and bamboo leaves
*
Deep holes were dug in the ground,
filled with hot stones and baby pigs, and the pigs were slowly baked over several days
*
The
Queen looked uneasily at her plate when she discovered a whole roast pig was her serving
*
Then she became uneasy when a turkey, some meat, bananas and an apple were also
carried
in
for
each
guest
*
So
she
depended
on
her
old
favorite
trick
of
talking
with
her
host
*
, King Tupou IV
, carrying on a warm conversation
*
At the same time she pushed her
food around her plate and only ate a piece of turkey and some fruit
*
Reporters
traveling
with
her
have
noted
that
the
Queen
will
sometimes
seem
so
carried away by a foreign leader‘s political chat that she simply never has time to finish a
meal
before
it
is
time
to
get
up
and
make
her
speech
*
She will
lift her fork
to
swallow a
mouthful,
then
put
it
down
again
to
make
another
point,
leaving
almost
all
of
her
meal