One English clergyman and apiarist insisted in 1744 that the queen must be a virgin.

ECONOMIST: Bees

Virgin Records released the Sex Pistols' irreverent hit "God Save the Queen, " which bashed the Royals, was banned by BBC radio--and hit No. 2 on the charts.

FORBES: Red Baron

As when Virgin Records released the Sex Pistols' irreverent hit "God Save the Queen, " which bashed the Royals, was banned by BBC radio--and hit number 2 on the charts.

FORBES: Red Baron

At 4.30am the crowds (only hundreds this time and arriving by car or scooter) gathered under the Column of Hera, the Greek name for Juno who, as Jupiter's spouse, was known as the Queen of the Heavens, a title later to be conferred on the Virgin Mary.

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