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"Coach," Nadia said, without moving her lips. "Stand up straighter."
They made me a citizen of Morocco that morning. Honorary, on paper, with a seal on it, 42 days after I got off an aeroplane in a country I had never set foot in.
And what went through my head, stood on that carpet, was this.
Does this affect my tax?
That is it. That is the entire contents of Daniel Walsh at the biggest moment of his working life. A king makes him a citizen of a nation of 35 million people and his brain produces a question about HMRC.
I asked Nadia about it in a corridor 20 minutes later because I could not stop myself.
She looked at me for a long moment.
"There are men who have given 40 years to that federation who do not have what is in your hand," she said. "You have had 42 days."
"I know."
"So do not ask me about tax." Then she laughed, which she has done twice in 6 weeks, and had to turn round and face a wall.
