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From left: British royalty, NBA royalty, Hollywood royalty. Unique Nicole/Getty Images; Ronald Martinez/Getty Images; Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe, center, disrupts proceedings as Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend a Parliamentary reception hosted by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and partner Jodie Jaydon at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. Lukas Coch/AP/AAP POOL hide caption

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Prince William and Prince Harry walk after viewing tributes for the late Queen Elizabeth II outside Windsor Castle last September. Court papers say Prince William received "a very large sum of money" in a 2020 phone hacking settlement with the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Prince Harry alleges in another lawsuit that Murdoch newspaper employees hacked into royals' phones. Martin Meissner/AP hide caption

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Martin Meissner/AP

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Buckingham Palace says Prince Harry (shown here in January 2020) will attend the coronation service of his father, King Charles III, at Westminster Abbey on May 6. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption

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Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

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Pallbearers from the Queen's Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, prepare to carry the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II into Westminster Hall at the Palace of Westminster in London on Wednesday to lie in state following a procession from Buckingham Palace. Elizabeth's funeral is Monday. Ben Stansall/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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An anti-monarchy demonstrator protests outside Palace of Westminster in central London on Monday. A number of arrests in the U.K. are sparking questions about freedom of speech. Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images

Thursday

Queen Elizabeth II poses in her coronation attire in the throne room of Buckingham Palace in London, after her coronation on June 2, 1953. AP hide caption

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Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch who brought stability to a changing nation

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (shown here in New York City in September), won the latest stage in her long-running privacy lawsuit against a newspaper publisher over its publication of parts of a letter she wrote to her estranged father Thomas Markle after she married Prince Harry in 2018. Stefan Jeremiah/AP hide caption

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By law, all wild swans in Great Britain belong to Queen Elizabeth. Alpha/Landov hide caption

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In Britain, Who's Tormenting The Queen's Swans?

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