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The British Queen will give her annual speech to the Commonwealth on Christmas Day - with palace officials denying she will announce her abdication...
Rumours had been rife after a bookmakers stopped taking bets that Her Majesty would step down.
Our UK correspondent Dan Whitehead reports...
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