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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Ouch! The Turkish First Lady's skyscraper heels are not made for Buckingham Palace - Telegraph

Ouch! The Turkish First Lady's skyscraper heels are not made for Buckingham Palace
Hayrünnisa Gül took a step in the wrong direction when she towered above the Queen in her stiletto boots.

By Cristina Odone

7:30AM GMT 24 Nov 2011

My left foot felt a sympathetic twinge as I stared at the photos of Hayrünnisa Gül, First Lady of Turkey, that filled the papers yesterday.

The sight of her dainty feet encased in six-inch-high dove-grey shoes triggered a spasm of pain in the bunion that adorns my foot. Round, hard and an alarming red, like the nose on a bibulous partygoer this time of year, the bony protuberance acts up every time I don the wrong shoes. Let us whisper it, palace protocol permitting: the First Lady’s shoes were very much the wrong shoes.

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