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But for the most part, there can no longer be any doubt that the conservative majority is working hand-in-glove with the administration to expand presidential powers to resemble those once given to absolute monarchs.

After the British monarch, she was the richest woman in Britain and Ireland at the time.

After previously revealing she would have swapped her quiet birthday celebration to meet the King, the monarch duly obliged a few weeks later.

The sculptor chosen to create a statue of Queen Elizabeth II for her national memorial has said he wants to capture the "grandeur and dignity" of Britain's longest-reigning monarch.

They are usually arranged at the invitation of the monarch, acting on government advice.