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A security adviser soon told me to record the seance room and do my show Gathered on a large sofa were the Shah Princess Farah Diba King Hussein of Jordan and his new wife Queen Noor But there were parameters I was firmly instructed not to contact the Shah during my performance How does one do pickpocketing if he s not allowed to affect his subjects Further on the Shah wore a gold Rolex Presidential watch at the clock one of the most expensive watches in the world and surely not something that I would experiment with The only thieves who are capable to lift Rolexes are in Naples Italy then and now and their technique is

almost surely not allow for light dinner entertainment in a royal setting I had to free myself to some other table magic routines which were my usual fallback material when all else failed My evening with the imperial rulers in the Middle East was not a winner to brag about I never ripped off the Shah of Persia Well not the prescribed way