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LONDON. A little more than two months ago, when she lost her husband Philip who had been close to her for seven decades, she suddenly appeared alone and dressed in black at the funeral: many newspapers and biographers of the royal house wrote that Elizabeth II probably did not it would be the same again. Apparently they were wrong, because the sovereign showed up on Saturday at the Ascot races in great shape: a blue dress with a flowered hat, string of pearls around the neck and a dazzling smile, she greeted the crowd that paid her homage and cheered for four of her horses competing in England’s poshest horse show.
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