The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 6 letter word ANNE BOLEYN
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More clues leading to the result ANNE BOLEYN
- Queen of Lebanon in the wars backing the old knight
- Perhaps ennoble any person finding royal favour at first
- Woman in power once, a European, the old throwback in the news
- Foreign nanny nursing European throwback to English queen
- Consort — for Henry the Second
- Lebanon produced and raised New York State’s ultimate old queen
- Queen sees foreign nanny hugging English tree trunk
- Awful baloney about one beheaded knight and queen
- Royal woman? Representation of lean bony one losing head
- Ennoble any stray old queen
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