More than one Queen

I took out the varroa strips from my hive today, and had a check.  The frames in the bottom box were very mouldy, so I have removed them, leaving the box empty.  Built a stand to elevate the hive about 30cm also, hopefully this will improve airflow and ventilation.  Second box is looking good, lots of bees and honey and new brood. Bees are still very active.

However, when I was moving the boxes, I found a queen above the queen excluder.  I put her back down into the brood box.  I then found two more queens as well.

Is this something I should be concerned about, or will they sort it out for themselves? God knows if there are any more queens in there!

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