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Dismissing a suggestion she was talking the country down, she claimed that doing nothing "would be a dereliction of duty on my part" and said was instead offering "an olive branch" to the prime minister to work with him.

"The President can hardly speak with one voice in foreign affairs or in dealings with Congress when the district court is forcing the Executive Branch to advocate against its own objectives," Sauer wrote.

"Such a scenario would help to explain why and how the miniature remained in a branch of the Southampton family for hundreds of years."

Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest reigning monarch, who died at the age of 96, had been president of the Women's Institute branch in Sunningdale.

The integrity of our system of justice and the judicial system is based on the trust that people place in the jurists that populate that branch, the third branch of government.