The original is kept in a bulletproof, climate-controlled case house in Italy

The hot spot seemed the perfect place for Yuletide-loving royalists. But, as with the Eiffel Tower in Beijing and some of the most picturesque windmills in the Netherlands, there was much less to it than first met the eye ...

Name: Buckingham Palace Christmas market.

Age: Brand new this year.

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The remote mountain shelter is neither ticketed nor staffed, and anyone can enter