The queen of England recently broke the record for the country's longest-reigning monarch. She displaced Queen Victoria, the previous title owner. Britain makes no claims of leading the world in advancing feminism. But it's a fact that by never subscribing to the Salic law, which insists that all sovereigns must be male, England has produced some outstanding female rulers or, at any rate, those under whom the nation's genius has flourished.
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