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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me to Empire with me Anita Arnan and me William Darimpool.

Yeah, you know you're a bit fancy this.

What are we looking at in your background?

That is not your usual abode. What's that about?

It is not my usual abode. I'm calling you from Hyderabad and I'm saying, I'm glad to say not at my expense in the

Falak Numa Palace, which is now a hotel, which was... in the

hotel,

hotel, which was the residence of two of the last Ottoman princesses.

There were two princesses who were the daughters of Abdul Majeed, the second, is that right, or the granddaughters or the

nieces, anyway, when they were shipped out at the end of the Ottoman Empire to Nice,

and from Nice they were married off to, that was then the richest family in the world which was

an is of them of Hyderabad's family and there were two of them one was called

dura chival and one was called Nilofa and they ended up here and I'm in Hyderabad

on a completely different business but

bizarrely we have been put in a in a former Ottoman residence in the middle of India.

Can I just say can I just say never has the word koi been put anywhere near your, not even in the same solar system as your name,

but when you say I'm here for some other business, no, not enough, I think pod people need to know what I know,

why are you there? What has happened? Because that is a

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