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TIL feudalism was practiced until April 9, 2008 on one of the Channel Islands in the UK, Sark. It was a fiefdom of the larger nearby island of Guernsey and administered by a Seigneur, who was a vassal to the land's owner – the Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II.

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