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The Queen's Giant

An aging supermarket closed in 2013 was once the subject of a royal visit

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Addison Del Mastro
Sep 28, 2022
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Last week I had a really fun piece in Greater Greater Washington. I’d had this idea sitting in my drafts bucket since February or March, when I came across an old news article about Queen Elizabeth II’s 1957 visit to Washington, D.C.

During that visit, she had apparently asked to tour an American supermarket, and after watching a football game at the Uni…

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