kolkata a surprise awaited the staff of pantaloons and westside stores on 22 camac street as they reached for work at 830 am on friday dozens of kolkata police vans were lined up and police officers waited impatiently for the stores to open throwing their operations managers off guardwe relaxed on being told that this was not another burglary but that the queen of nepal was coming to shop here around 1130 am said sanjeev todi manager of pantaloonswe were thrilled but were gripped by another tension that of having to prepare our store for the royal reception at such a short noticethe queen komal rajya laxmi started with pantaloons she explained at the outset that she had just half an hours time because of a very tight schedule and asked to be shown to the bag corner firstshe picked up two leather ladies purses from the longhorns range todi said she next bought a cotton embroidered ethnic salwar kameez which the sales staff confided was for her daughter she told us that such stuff was not easily available in nepal the sales people said todi and the rest of the store was surprised when the queen asked if fancy kids umbrellas were available at the storewe have recently introduced a range of these made of transparent synthetic material on which cartoon characters are printed and the handle is also moulded into the shape of such a character the queen bought three she also picked up a kids game and bought 15 garments for a baby boy todi saidthe queens bill at the pantaloons store was about rs 15000 revealed a happy todiwhen she walked across to westside the queens half an hour had run out but she still insisted on visiting the store because apparently she had heard of it even in kathmandu and had made it a point to pick up something from us gushed westside operations manager amit dharap she picked up two western casual ladies tops for rs 1400 from herethe queen was thrilled when a sales staff of the store sushila david started speaking to her in nepali while showing her around david is from sikkim but can speak nepali fluentlyand though the queens trip at the store was short she has promised david that she would come back soon