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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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Subject: Re: King and Queen
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:56:18 +0100
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 Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Ross Clark: 

 > [...] Monarchs, then, can have spouses who do not reign. Could two people be
 > co-regnant? Wiliam III and Mary II, apparently, were co-monarchs
 > (1689-1694). I can't remember how that was worked out, though we heard about
 > it in high school. Or how William got to be "William III and II", as I just
 > read somewhere.

Los Reyes Católicos (Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain) were, fairly famously,
this.

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