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Dubbed the king's foreign daughter (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

knighted

'dubbed' is the definition.
('knight' can be a synonym of 'dub')

'the king's foreign daughter' is the wordplay.
'foreign' indicates an anagram (foreign order of the letters).
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'the'+'king'='theking'
'theking' is an anagram of 'knighte'.
'knighte'+'d'='KNIGHTED'

(Other definitions for knighted that I've seen before include "Given a title" , "Given an honour" , "Made a Sir" , "Dubbed 'Sir'" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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