I didn't know what to make of it, and then I found this Wikipedia comment:
As many as 21 virgin queens have been counted in a single large swarm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee
so my current theory is that the original large swarm contain four or more princesses, three of which left the next day in after-swarms of their own.
Here you can see a the virgin queen of one swarm being tended to, after I sprayed the whole bunch with water to weigh them down and make it more difficult to fly:
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