1.   My soldiers had inherited the same genes from the present queen as those old soldiers had inherited from the ancestral queens.

2.   His descendant, the present queen, Margrethe II, has left her mark on the city in more subtle ways.

3.   The present queen, Elizabeth II, became the monarch only because her father, King George VI, died without sons.

4.   The Queen Mother died mid-afternoon Saturday with her daughter, the present queen, Elizabeth II, by her side.