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I have my crown rather a spelling done

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and then my whistle with all my buttons

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on like Jaws

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but

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I bet the old rolls don't know how to do

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this

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we had to move away because the rent we

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couldn't pay the moving van came round

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just after dark

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oh well you can't trust especially was

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like the old-time coppers when you can't

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find your way and get off me Para

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I'm dying Gould I'm the Pearly queen of

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Saint pancreas part of the Pearly Royals

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my Royal duty is a pearly Queen

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um is to go and raise fun and funds for

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Charities the Pearly Royals date right

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back to Victorian times among London's

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fruit and vegetable sellers known as

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Costas and the local orphan and rat

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catcher called Henry Croft

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Legend has it he stumbled across a

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Shipwrecked Crate by the Thames filled

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with sixty thousand Pearl buttons he

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sewed them all onto an old suit and used

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it to raise money for his orphanage the

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suit was such a success that he got his

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cost of friends involved too appointing

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a pearly king and queen to all 28 London

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boroughs to raise money for local

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charities

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titles are handed down through Families

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my great-granddad was George Dahl the

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first belly king of Saint Pancras and

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led 17 saucepan Lids my granddad Alf

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became the Pearly Prince and then my dad

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Alf named after his dad was a pearly

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king of Saint Pancras I became the

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Pearly queen of Saint Pancras and my

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sons Terry Lee and Simon are the Pearly

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king and a couple of princes and my

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grandchildren are the Pearly Prince and

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princesses of some pancreas

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does that make sense

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we like to support royalty like

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Jubilee's coronations and that's what

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we've bumped into them over the years a

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few pearly's got invited to a

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celebration and the queen came along and

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she looked at us like that I gave her

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the thumbs up and the old the old Queen

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Mum

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she was a girl

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as in any families you get the ups and

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downs so the royal family aren't any

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different all I can say to Charlie our

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lovely King Charles is just stay

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grounded and listen to your heart you

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jam top

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this is one of dad's pearly suits it was

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the main one that you like to wear oh

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you got the ship on the back she was in

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The Merchant Navy and a crown my son

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Terry was in the RAF hang on let's let's

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go to the hats okay so that's one I just

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got off eBay like come off an original

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pelly Queens um so it's my friend's

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Jimmy's who has different styles of

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pearly hats her Couture isn't it

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millinery that's the word the whistle

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I'm sitting in the whistling flu I'm

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sitting in here's the one that I that I

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sewed uh started 40 years ago and just

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added bits and took bits off I've got

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fish on my suit we used to eat fish and

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jelly deals lovely jubbly right

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horseshoe for luck I've also got a

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symbol of Great Ormond Street on my on

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my skirt the symbol of the charity that

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we represent where we do knees up so or

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we're going out and about buttons get

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lost so you're always sewing on more

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buns then I might think oh I wanna I

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wanna put a different symbol on there

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basically it's an ongoing piece of work

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Diane now lives in East Sussex but she

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regularly makes Royal visits to her

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Realm

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London the old oak smoke to be able to

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walk along the streets is quite

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privileged when people come up it's just

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holding their hand it's very deep and

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meaningful because some people look at

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look at me and go well what's this all

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about and I just say it's about love I

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might not know you but I'll get to know

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you and to me pearly symbolize that

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connection with each other

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foreign

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motto is one never knows it's very

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meaningful because in life as we're all

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aware one never knows I get quite

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emotional about this because

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through life's ups and downs you need

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good friends and family in between and

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that's what counts it's sharing the good

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times as well coming together

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socializing having a good vibe nothing

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better than to go to the battle Cruise

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or a pixia and a good old Jolly up and

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knees up and sing song

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up the apples and pears and through the

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Oreo more into seeing me dear I'll

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travel in strife

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a pint of pigs for supper then off to

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Uncle Ned Oh What A Wonderful Life I

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have

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I'm sorry

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