Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUEEN MINASEEH desperately wants to make it at the hop this time after three close calls...
...Lupino is featured as an adoption racket queen in "Child of Sorrow, Child of Light." Repeat...
After delivering her complaint to the island's parliament, the Dame of Sark, who is responsible only to Queen Elizabeth II, announced that she planned to surrender the sovereignty of her 3-mile-long-by-H-mile-wide island to neighboring Guernsey, eight miles farther out in the English Channel. Her 575 subjects were aghast. "The Dame has put us in a small boat and pushed us down the river," groused Philip Perree, a hotelkeeper. "We have no wish to be ruled by the bureaucrats of Guernsey...
...Sark has had the privilege of self-rule since 1565, when Helier de Carteret was named Seigneur de Sark by Queen Elizabeth I. His descendants ruled until 1713, when the island was first sold, and in 1730 it was purchased by the Le Pelleys of Guernsey. Dame Sibyl's family took control by foreclosing a mortgage on the Le Pelleys...
...Macalpine and Hunter require a modification of this view to take his physical illness into account. The new evidence may also explain the mysterious deaths of several of his ancestors and collateral relatives, including James I's son Henry and George's sister Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway. Both were rumored to have been poisoned by close relatives. Both actually may have died of the royal malady...