Does this Gleaner front page feature our first Queen?

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I thought this week would be a good week to feature a front page of the Gleaner. Although this front page and extraordinary story came to my notice in September, I thought the unexpected death of our Queen Elizabeth ll would eclipse interest in it. However, as the British Museum is currently showcasing Egyptian Hieroglyphs and it is a hundred years since archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the "wonderful things" in Tutenkhamun's tomb, I thought this story might be of interest. Egypt's Queen was an ancestor of Tutenkhamun. It's all speculation and more than a bit theoretical, but, as Gleaner photojournalist Margery Moore would say, "nothing is ever straight forward in the Havell Hundreds."

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