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A curiosity of history is that the two most notable British monarchs of the last 200 years have been women: Victoria, who was Queen from 1837 to 1901 and defined the Victorian Age of Britain’s rise to global power; and Elizabeth II, who became Queen in 1952 and died Thursday at age 96 after an exemplary reign during an era that tested British unity and fortitude.
Americans these days think of the British monarchy in terms of celebrity and family melodrama: Diana and Charles, Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, Harry and Meghan Markle’s flight from their royal duties for a life in North America.
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