When Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was born one fifth of the Earth's surface was covered by the British Empire.

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It was a voice so sonorously deep, yet so delicately controlled, that it seemed to issue forth from the Pachamama herself, the earth goddess of the Quechua-speaking people of the Inca empire from whom Ms Sosa partially descended.

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