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London Tourist Gets Palace Guard To Smile Published March 13, 2014 at 7:05 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 0:28


RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:


Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.


Tourists always try to get the famously straight-faced British royal guard to crack a smile. This week, a guy with a Borscht Belt touch pulled it off. Yankel Ineyamuka(ph) stood next to one


of the Queen's Guard in his tall red hat and offered an absurd monologue in how they were at school together at Kensington, how he never talked. And what finally got the guard to giggle, how


his mom picked him up from school until he was 20.


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