1.   Executive power is formally vested in the British monarch, represented by a Governor-General who acts on the advice of a Council of Ministers.

2.   A British monarch decided that his gamboling would have a certain je ne sais quoi if housed in a delightfully inauthentic Indian palace in Brighton.

3.   British monarchs are defenders of a faith that does not sanction the remarriage of divorced persons.

4.   But Townsend was divorced and the Church of England, which is headed by the British monarch, forbade the remarriage of a divorced person.

5.   Each is named for and outfitted in the style reminiscent of a British monarch.

6.   Elizabeth II has now sat on the throne longer than all but four other British monarchs.

7.   FDR held a picnic on the porch at the cottage for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during the first visit by a British monarch to the United States.

8.   I am the first British monarch to visit Moscow.

9.   It is the first visit of a British monarch to Russia, and Yeltsin and his spokesmen were quick to describe it as support for democratic reforms.

10.   Last year, Mary Robinson became the first Irish head of state to travel to Britain to meet with the British monarch.