- Alcohol in general and fine wines especially. The dwarfs have brewed their own beer for centuries and have happily imported from Earth too. If it's a decent brew, they don't care where it comes from. The Royal Household, the nobility, the Queen and even Eileen are snobbish here but their one exception is when it comes to wine. They are more than happy to import the best from Earth. The Queen and Eileen are also partial to champagne. They ignore the "flowery" descriptions of wine and other drinks and decide the merits of a drink on taste alone.
- Art works. The Kingdom does not steal art works but they do copy what they see so in the Queen's Palace there are reproductions of the whole of Van Gogh's work, several of John Constable's paintings (Her Majesty loves a decent landscape) and works by Manet and Monet.
- Classical Music. Again directly copied from Earth, the Queen has magically created what we would see as a CD player to play works by the great composers.
The Fairy Kingdom doesn't see pinching ideas as theft, more as a kind of sharing of resources! Naturally though it won't share its magic. Hypocrisy is not a crime here (which makes it huge fun to write about of course).
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