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7 Marcus ______, Roman emperor noted for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy (8)

8 Central Anatolian city captured by the Ottoman ruler Orhan Ghazi in 1354 (6)

10 Queen of Egypt in 14th century BC, the chief wife of Akhenaten (9)

11 Elizabeth______, business name of the 20th-century founder of a cosmetics empire in the USA (5)

12 Hampshire town, scene of a 1643 battle that ended in victory for the parliamentarians over the royalists (5)

13 Organisation founded during the reign of Henry VIII, opening up to the public in 1635 and gaining its present name in 1784 (5,4)

15 The last _______ of Germany was Wilhelm II (reigned 1888-1918) (6)

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