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  1. Title (from 1956) of land in UK formerly
  2. owned by the monarch but handed to Parliament
  3. (by George III in 1760) in exchange for an
  4. annual payment (called the civil list). It
  5. owns valuable sites in central London, and
  6. 268,400 acres in England and Scotland.
  7.