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The whole evening was like that. But you've got to give Noor her due; she's smart and she knows her audience. It was a pitch-perfect performance.

Besides, she was the picture of chic, modern glamour. Now "of a certain age," as they say of women, she was still a head-turner in person. She may be the blondest queen in the history of Arabia. It was clear why the Jordanian royal family is second only to the Windsors as America's favorite royals.

It helps, of course, if the queen was born Lisa Halaby in America and married into royalty, giving hope to daydreaming schoolgirls everywhere.

People say Washington doesn't have the culture of New York or the glitz of Los Angeles -- and they're right. That's because it's so small. It cannot have the depth or breadth of those places.

But it has something better. It gives ordinary Joes and Janes the opportunity to get right up close to the rich and powerful and observe them as they really are.

It was certainly worth the $48 the tickets cost me.

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