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The US President’s ‘Royal Progress’ Jaunt

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Nov 16, 2017
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In the days when being King of England was still a consequential job, monarchs periodically set out on a royal progress – a round of visits to the major towns of the realm – which were the occasion for increasingly lavish displays of pageantry and propaganda.

While US President Donald Trump was beginning his own five-nation progress in Tokyo, back on Nov…

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