Question: I am the luckiest lady around!  

I am the most constricted of all.

I am the richest lady on earth!  

Yet I own nothing at all.

The world bends to my will!  

Yet I possess no power.

Every girl wishes to be in my place!  

But I chose not to come and only leave at death.

Who am I?

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> [The Happy Prisoner](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/28595) 
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> The title is a pun, but I doubt anyone will catch it.
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Answer: 
You're: 

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>  Lady Luck. 
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I am the luckiest lady around!

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>  Self explanatory. 
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I am the most constricted of all.

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>  You're completely **constricted** by the laws of probably. 
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I am the richest lady on earth!

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>  All riches come from some sort of luck. Even if you're born into it, your birth alone had some luck involved. 
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Yet I own nothing at all.

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>  Luck has no possessions. 
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The world bends to my will!

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>  Everything, right down to quantum mechanics has some factor (however large or small) of probability/luck involved. Even the earth's orbit has a slight wobble to it's **bend** around the sun do to probability.
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Yet I possess no power.

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>  But luck itself doesn't have any power. It disperses energy in a random manner. 
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Every girl wishes to be in my place!

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>  All girls (and boys) want to be the lucky one. 
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But I chose not to come and only leave at death.

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>  Luck doesn't **chose** to do anything and when you're dead "your *luck* is up". 
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Pun:

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>  The title and hint refer to this being a story (**tale**) of Lady Luck and the luck of heads or **tail**s in a coin toss. You might not **catch it** (the coin, riddle or pun) if you're *unlucky*. 
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You could be

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> Queen Elizabeth II
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I am the luckiest lady around!
I am the most constricted of all.

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> Many people consider coins good luck, her portrait is on British coinage. As a portrait on a coin she cannot go anywhere so she is very restricted. Also, she herself is lucky to be the queen, but she is restricted in the things she can do by her station.
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I am the richest lady on earth!
Yet I own nothing at all.

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> Again, as a portrait on a money, she "has" lots of money yet doesn't own it. Also, as queen she is wealthy, yet her wealth ultimately belongs to the British nation.
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The world bends to my will!
Yet I possess no power.

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> The world's behavior is influenced by the money with her portrait on it. Yet as queen, she's a figurehead that doesn't have political power.
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Every girl wishes to be in my place!
But I chose not to come and only leave at death.

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> Every girl dreams of being the Queen. However, the Queen was born into her position and didn't choose it, and will be Queen until her death.
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The title is a pun, but I doubt anyone will catch it.

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> The "tail" in the title refers to the coins that bear her image. Also "catch it" might be referring to catching a coin after it is flipped in the air.
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