True, Queen Sonja is a broad-minded, arts-loving royal consort rather than a reigning monarch. It included, for example, an account of a New York cabaret artiste whose speciality involved extracting chicken legs from her vagina. Still, it’s unlikely that, over the seven super-patient decades of her reign, Elizabeth II has ever listened to anything quite like the act that greeted Queen Sonja of Norway when she opened the Bergen Festival last month. In the course of their official duties, queens must have to sit through plenty of strange shows.
