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TIL: That Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who died at the age of 101 in 2002, had an older sister, Violet, who sadly died at the age of eleven, eight years before the Queen Mother’s own birth. Which means that one sister died in the 19th century while the other died in the 21st century.

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