“They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace —
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
They've great big parties inside the grounds.
"I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds",
Says Alice.”

—  A.A. Milne, book When We Were Very Young

When We Were Very Young (1924)

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