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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2602100, member: 12789&quot;]QE is rather important to American history of course, your daughter surely knows.&nbsp; It was QE that sent Sir Francis Drake on his way and also sent the initial colonists to the Roanoke colony in 1587.&nbsp; Had the pesky Spaniards under King Phillip not tried to invade England in 1588 the Roanoke colony might well have been resupplied earlier on and survived.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have some tanners and bobs of QE myself, IMHO she was a most fascinating monarch from that period - she stood her own and ruled in her own right and was quite adept at playing competing interests against one another in order to retain her supremacy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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