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If the forthcoming nuptials of the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles are to be celebrated in a work of art, what form should that work take? A set of postage stamps is to be issued (English stamps are adhesive these days, thus depriving squeamish citizens of the need to lick Charles and Camilla on the reverse), but stamps fall short of art. How about a life-size bronze, nailed to a plinth in Trafalgar Square? A double portrait by Lucian Freud, perhaps, with the lovers' likeness caught in an inch-thick crust of scumbled paint? Or how about this: His Royal Highness, twirling around a stage in a dark suit, his neck gripped securely in the thighs of a riding-coated Mrs. Parker Bowles, his face engaged directly...
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