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Queen Elizabeth II introduced to Baltic ancestry

Oct 18, 2006
By Arturas Racas

VILNIUS - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will likely cherish her first ever visit to the Baltic states, not only for the warm welcome she received but because the monarch learned that she herself carries Lithuanian heritage. The queen and her husband, Prince Phillip, arrived to Vilnius late on Oct.16. The next morning, the 80-year-old monarch learned that she had blood ties to one of Lithuania's greatest medieval rulers 's Grand Duke Gediminas, founder of Vilnius. The Lietuvos Rytas daily reporte ...

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