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Queen tours press display
May 24, 2006, 12:42 GMT
Britain's Queen Elizabeth has toured an exhibition of newspaper front pages from the past 100 years.
The 80-year-old monarch said the display at the British Library in London was 'fascinating', according to a report on the BBC website.
The display - which is part of an exhibition charting developments in reporting - includes memorable headlines covering historic events like the moon landing, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The queen, who was accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, paused in front of a copy of Britain's The Sun newspaper from the day of the general election in 1992, which said: 'If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights.' She also looked at a copy of the Independent on Sunday, which asked British Prime Minister Tony Blair where Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were. It read: 'So where are they Mr Blair?' However, the monarch did not look at stories about the royal family, which include front pages from the day Princess Diana died in 1997. Before the tour, a spokesman for the library said the queen would probably not view the royal section. The spokesman is quoted in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper as saying: 'We felt it wouldn't quite be appropriate.'Copyright 2006 BANG Media International
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