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TIL Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip are 3rd cousins, 2nd cousins and are the great-great grandkinds of Queen Victoria. Because of this, Phillip himself is in the line of succession to the throne though about 490 people would have to die for him to become King in his own right

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