Is she even a British citizen or in a category all by herself (being the sovereign and all)?
And her motorcade cut me off one day on the way to work, too. I wonder how connected that is.
Since the OP indicates that Sam Houston would be a good response, the following should qualify. Remember that the Declaration of Independence declared that the 13 former British colonies were henceforward “free and independent states.” While Americans and presumably most others in A.D. 2009 hear that as meaning “component unit of the country named The United States of America,” that is in fact anachronistic – the term meant “state” in the sense that Denmark, Portugal, and Sweden were independent states. This held true from July 2, 1776, when the Declaration was enacted until at least March 1, 1781, when the Articles of Confderation were ratified by the final state and went into effect, and arguably until June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire’s ratification completed the self-imposed effectuation requirements of the Constitution, or March 4, 1789, when it went into effect. Hence the following people were, as Governors (or other titles) Heads of State of present U.S. States as independent states, who later became U.S. citizens. Note that Texas (for 15 years), California (for 15 days), and Hawaii (for 88 years) were independent nations before joining the Union, and Vermont was an independent Republic prior to being the first state admitted to the new Union (as opposed to the original 13 who formed it).
Meshech Weare, New Hampshire
John Langdon, New Hampshire*
John Sullivan, New Hampshire*
John Hancock, Massachusetts
Thomas Cushing, Massachusetts**
John Bowdoin, Massachusetts*
Thomas Chittenden, Vermont
Moses Reardon, Vermont
Nicholas Cooke, Rhode Island
William Greene, Rhode Island
John Collins, Rhode Island*
Jonathan Turnbull, Connecticut
Matthew Griswold, Connecticut*
Samuel Huntington, Connecticut*
George Clinton, New York
William Livingston, New Jersey
Thomas Wharton, Pennsylvania[sup]P[/sup]
George Bryan, Pennsylvania[sup]AP[/sup]
Joseph Reed, Pennsylvania[sup]P[/sup]
William Moore, Pennsylvania[sup]P*[/sup]
John Dickinson, Pennsylvania[sup]P*[/sup], and Delaware*
Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania[sup]P*[/sup]
Thomas Mifflin, Pennsylvania[sup]P*[/sup]
John McKinly, Delaware
Thomas McKean, Delaware
George Read, Delaware
Caesar Rodney, Delaware
John Cook, Delaware*
Nicholas VanDyke, Delaware*
Thomas Collins, Delaware*
Thomas Johnon, Maryland
Thomas Sim Lee, Maryland
William Paca, Maryland*
William Smallwood, Maryland*
John Eager Howard, Maryland*
Patrick Henry, Virginia
Thomas Jefferson, Virginia^
William Fleming, Virginia**
Thomas Nelson, Jr., Virginia
David Jameson, Virginia**
Benjamin Harrison V, Virginia*
Edmund Randolph, Virginia*
Beverley Randolph, Virginia*
Cornelius Harnett, North Carolina[sup]P[/sup]
Samuel Ashe, North Carolina[sup]P[/sup]
Willie Jones, North Carolina[sup]P[/sup]
Richard Caswell, North Carolina
Abner Nash, North Carolina
Thomas Burke, North Carolina*
Alexander Martin, North Carolina*
Samuel Johnston, North Carolina*
John Rutledge, South Carolina[sup]P[/sup]
Rawlins Lowndes, South Carolina[sup]P[/sup]
John Matthews, South Carolina*
Benjamin Guerard, South Carolina*
William Moultrie, South Carolina*
Thomas Pinckney, South Carolina*
Charles Pinckney, South Carolina*
Archibald Bulloch, Georgia
Button Gwinnett, Georgia
John A. Treutlen, Georgia
John Houstoun, Georgia
William Glascock, Georgia
Seth John Cuthbert, Georgia
John Wereat, Georgia
George Walton, Georgia
Richard Howly, Georgia
Humphrey Wells, Georgia
Stephen Heard, Georgia
Myrick Davies, Georgia
Nathan Brownson, Georgia*
John Martin, Georgia*
Lyman Hall, Georgia*
Samuel Elbert, Georgia*
Edward Telfair, Georgia*
George Matthews, Georgia*
George Handley, Georgia*
George Walton, Georgia*
David G. Burnet, Texas[sup]IP[/sup]
Sam Houston, Texas[sup]P[/sup]
Mirabeau B. Lamar, Texas[sup]P[/sup]
Anson Jones, Texas[sup]P[/sup]
William B. Ide, California[sup]P[/sup]
Liliuokalani, Hawaii[sup]Q[/sup]
Sanford Dole, Hawaii[sup]P[/sup]
Notes:
- Governor under the Articles of Confedertion
** Acting Governor
[sup]P[/sup] President
[sup]P*[/sup] President under the Articles of Confederation
[sup]AP[/sup] Acting President
[sup]IP[/sup] Interim President
[sup]Q[/sup] Queen Regnant
Not officially, as it violates the DR constitution, but it is fairly likely that both the current president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, and his predecessor Hipólito Mejía hold US citizenship. Fernandez spent much of his childhood and youth in NYC and speaks good English, and Mejía let it slip during an interview that he had “US citizenship” which was hastily denied by his aides, who insisted he had made a mistake. :rolleyes:
HM the Queen is not a citizen of the United Kingdom. She was a citizen before becoming the queen in 1952, and if she abdicated she would become a citizen again.
So if she’s not a citizen of the UK, then she’s also not a citizen of Canada and the other Commonwealth Realms in the same way, right? 
I’ve heard such rumors, and it’s entirely possible, even likely, that they’re true. Still, “Da Valero” is an odd, interesting name for an unmarried mother to make up.
In any case, Ireland’s most important elected leader was born in the United States.
Would Paul Bremer count?
Correct.
I’m not even sure if Her Majesty has a passport, to be honest. I’m pretty sure when you get to that level one can land one’s Royal Jet at pretty much airport in any civilised country on the planet and not have to contend with immigration formalities (assuming your arrival is expected, of course).
AIUI all the other members of the Royal Family require passports, but not the Reigning Sovereign.
Well, for one thing, don’t British passports still say “in the name of her Majesty the Queen, please let this person pass freely”? So, presumably if the Queen needed a passport someplace, she could just write one up herself on a bar napkin or something: “Hello, I am the Queen. Please let me in. Thanks ever so much. [signed]Elizabeth II, By the Grace of God, etc., etc.”
Heads of the native American Indian nations
Australian, NZ, and Canadian passports say the same thing. There’s a very subtle undertone of “… and if you don’t, we’re going to send a Dreadnaught to shell your [del]Tribal Village[/del] Capital City. Don’t think we won’t. Signed Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, etc.” about the whole thing, too.
The Reigning Sovereign doesn’t have a passport, but interestingly enough, she doesn’t have a Driver’s Licence either- even though Her Majesty can legally drive (she learnt during WWII). Since Passports, Driver’s Licences, and that sort of thing are generally issued In The Name Of Her (His) Majesty The Queen (King), it’s a bit daft- even for the Poms ;)- to have the Reigning Sovereign needing to carry a passport or driver’s licence on them.
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty, but we require two forms of photographic identification to process your Visa Card application, and I’m afraid a postage stamp and a £10 note don’t qualify…” 
Martini Enfield writes:
> The Reigning Sovereign doesn’t have a passport, but interestingly enough, she
> doesn’t have a Driver’s Licence either- even though Her Majesty can legally
> drive (she learnt during WWII).
Indeed, she can also fix cars. She learned to be a driver and a mechanic during World War II in the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service.
astorian writes:
> I’ve heard such rumors, and it’s entirely possible, even likely, that they’re true.
> Still, “Da Valero” is an odd, interesting name for an unmarried mother to make
> up.
Who knows why she made up the story of her supposed husband being a Spanish sculptor? Perhaps it has something to do with the urban legend of many Irish people being descended from Spanish sailors washed ashore on Ireland after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. (As we’ve discussed here, it’s clearly false.) She’d heard this story in Ireland, and on finding herself pregnant decided that it would make a slightly exotic origin to have the supposed father be Spanish. Maybe she knew some artists in New York and thought that being a sculptor would be an interesting job for the supposed father. Incidentally, in the Irish movie The Snapper, the pregnant young women there tells everyone that the father of her baby was a Spanish sailor she had a drunken encounter with. (In fact, it was a married friend of her father that she had the encounter with.) I haven’t read the book by Roddy Doyle that the movie is based on. I flipped through it quickly and couldn’t find what her claim about the father was there.
Incidentally, if I were a detective and wanted to research the probable fatherhood of De Valera, I would start with the wealthy French family that Catherine Coll worked for as a maid. Maybe she was seduced by someone in that family. When she became pregnant, this guy paid her off and she created the story of Juan de Valera.
It’s “Her Brittanic Majesty’s Secretary of State requests and requires in the Name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance…”
It always makes me laugh when I read it.
Thank you, Wendall Wagner! I saw that movie years ago and enjoyed it, and wanted to rent it awhile ago, but couldn’t remember the title!
The one line that cracked Mrs. Piper and me up at the time, and that we keep feeding each other, came in the pub, after the girl had given birth. Her dad, now a grandad, was sitting at the bar and told the pub-keeper, “He’s 8 pounds.”
Wizened old drinker sitting beside him says, “Is that a baby or a turkey you’re talking about?”
Proud grandad says, “A baby!”
“Ah,” says the old duffer.
He takes a pull from his pint, then says, “That’s big for a baby.”
Takes another pull, then says, “small for a turkey.”
For some reason, that just appealed to the Piper senses of humour.
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Now, this is where we colonials differ. My passport says, “The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada requests, in the name of Her Majesty The Queen, all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary.” Plus the equivalent in French. Nothing about ‘requires’, and nothing Brittanic about it either. On the other hand, how many places have a government department in charge of [del]overseas hookups[/del] foreign affairs?
New Zealand passports have “The Governor General in the Realm of New Zealand requests in the name of Her Majesty the Queen etc”, whilst the Australian one has “The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, being the representative in Australia of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, requests etc”.
I do vaguely recall my old NZ passport having “Require and Demand” instead of “request”, though, but I may be misremembering that.
Most Commonwealth countries, I’d assume. 
It’s the “and requires” bit that I like. Obviously that carried a bit more weight in the 19th Century.
South Africa does. We have one for “home affairs” too. (And “land affairs”, “environmental affairs” and “water affairs”, though those are less susceptible to double entendres. )
I can’t find a list of all the countries with departments of foreign affairs, but I think it would be a long one. It’s the U.S. that’s unusual by calling it the department of state.