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Thread #137473   Message #3540655
Posted By: MGM·Lion
23-Jul-13 - 02:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Royal Wedding/baby
Subject: RE: BS: The Royal Wedding/baby
A monarch isn't called "The First" until a Second of the same name comes along, though. We didn't talk of Elizabeth I, but just of Queen Elizabeth, until the present incumbent's reign began. Queen Anne is just that, not Anne I, likewise King John, because there has never been a second of either.

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