# Why so many different crowns?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 10, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-different-crowns/621556 "2012-05-10T22:11:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-different-crowns/621556/21 "2012-05-16T11:52:26Z")

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The surprise is that the Musgroves managed to figure out how to breed through the intervening 250 years, as they must have been collectively as stupid as \*gravel \*not to have figured out what Holmes saw in a moment.

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-different-crowns/621556/22 "2012-05-16T12:08:32Z")

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> [@Lord\_Feldon](#):
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> before she left the abbey she went into a back room and ditched it and most of the layers of robes she was wearing, putting on the Imperial State Crown

\<saxophone\>You can leaaave your crown on…\</saxophone\>

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