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At Washington’s tomb, a British royal honors the man who kicked out the Crown

By Nicky Robertson, CNN (CNN) — On an autumn day in 1860, a bearded British man visited George Washington’s tomb at his final resting place in Virginia. While there he paused to plant a small buckeye tree. The tree would grow, and so would he, to become King Edward VII of England, King of the Uni...

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