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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Queens
England
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Family
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Nothing
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