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Forget those ten thousand men, marched up and down to the top of the hill by some dotty, 18th-century antecedent.
The number is negligible compared with the tally of people Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, 86, has encountered throughout his long life; the global distances he has travelled; the potentates he has mollified; the warlords he has disarmed; the troops and regiments for whom he has been the