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Former Metropolitan Opera general manager Sir Rudolf Bing, whose estate of some $1 million has been taken out of his control by a U.S. court, has surfaced again in England. During a round of interviews Tuesday with Bing and his wife, the former Carroll Douglas, Bing kept asking reporters, “Where are we?” Mrs. Bing insisted that her husband “is a little bit forgetful but remembers his past very well.” The 85-year-old Bing’s presence in Leeds became public Monday after he and his 47-year-old wife were unable to pay a $580 hotel bill following their arrival in northern England two weeks ago. A Manhattan Supreme Court judge froze Bing’s U.S. assets after ruling he was incapable of handling his own affairs in February. Judge Arthur Blyn also prohibited Mrs. Bing access to any of Bing’s accounts, an action Mrs. Bing calls “trumped-up.” “I may not be a direct descendant of Queen Victoria, but I am the woman my husband loves,” she added. Graham Platt, the Bings’ British attorney, said the couple would seek a house in Yorkshire and retire there.