One became king of the Belgians as Leopold I in 1831, and another, Albert, married the British queen Victoria in 1840 and was the ancestor of five successive British sovereigns (though the name Wettin was rarely cited in England, and that of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was officially changed, for the British, to the house of Windsor in 1917).
"When you mention the Queen to someone halfway across the world, they think of our British Queen," he reflects.
British Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Ministers Edward Heath, Jim Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair took the Concorde in some charter flights such as Queen's trips to Barbados on her Silver Jubilee in 1977, in 1987 and in 2003, to Middle East in 1984, to the United States in 1991, etc. Pope John Paul II flew Concorde in May 1989.
She will also be the first British Queen with a university degree.
Is there something unhealthily martyrish about the British "Queen for Life" system?
He receives the Order of Merit from the British Queen at a private ceremony in 1987.
The author of "The Girl's Like Spaghetti" is the British queen of punctuation glee, Lynne Truss.
Hugh Montgomery: As someone who became famous for playing a British queen, she knows it's all about the reginal wave.
With his death, British Queen Elizabeth II, 88, becomes the oldest monarch in the world – but not the longest serving.
The prospect of a British Queen visiting those hallowed sights will inflame further the passions of the unrepresentative but vocal, often violent, minority who adhere to dissident republicanism.
