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                                                        Westminster Abbey

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Westminster

          Westminster Abbey is a Collegiate Church of St.Peter at Westminster, London, west of Palace of Westminster. A Collegiate Chruch is where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of preists or ministers. It is mainly a gothic church. Westminster is a place of coronation and burial site of English, later British monarchs of the Commonwealth Realms. Commonwealth Realms is any soverign state (a state that has king or queen as ruler) that recognizes Queen Elizabeth II as their Queen and head of state.                 
            Established by the Royal church of Queen Elizabeth I (Virgin Queen) in 1560. Which was created as the Collegiate church of St. Peter Westinister and the royal family under the personal jurisdiction of the monach.    
                Queen Elizabeth I wrote a formal document that allowed the Dean and Chapter of Westminster to govern the collegiate church.