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Competition

Spectator competition winners: poems about Her late Majesty’s favourite things

8 October 2022

9:00 AM

8 October 2022

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3269, you were invited to write a poem about Her late Majesty’s favourite things.

Alongside the more familiar royal predilections – corgis, horses, Dubonnet and gin, Corrie, the colour blue – was the revelation that the Queen was partial to a spot of heavy metal, and in particular Ozzy Osborne, though perhaps that was just a flight of fancy.

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