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- The members of virtually every royal house, regnant or deposed, in Europe are related to Europe's most prospering crown, Britain's.
- Yet, during the 1920s, when Paris was still the uncontested capital of haute couture, the unchallenged queen regnant of Paris fashion was petite, disdainful Gabrielle ("Coco .
- The Archduke's lawyers argued that his personal family was never "regnant.