81.   Zimbabwe is a member of the Commonwealth, whose head is the British monarch, and the United States is consulting with Britain and countries in the Commonwealth.

82.   Inside, hundreds more fans of the first British monarch to visit Russia in history repeated the adulation.

83.   A Buckingham Palace official acknowledged the lack of people to greet the queen, the first British monarch to visit Russia in history, was a problem.

84.   A Labour Party think-tank will ask party leader Tony Blair Monday to consider drastically reducing the powers of the British monarch, The Times reported.

85.   Canada, like several other former British colonies, recognizes the British monarch as its own head of state.

86.   The Russians sent deputy prime minister Oleg Soskovets to meet the queen when she arrived Monday on the first visit by a British monarch to Russia.

87.   The visit will be the first by a British monarch on Russian soil despite hundreds of years of relations between the one-time imperial rivals.

88.   There were no earlier indications the Russians intended to snub the British monarch.

89.   It has lain in Westminster Abbey since then, part of the throne on which English and later British monarchs were crowned, including the present Queen Elizabeth II.

90.   It was the first time since the Reformation that a British monarch met with the primate of the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland.