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15 de may. de 2024 · William Ewart Gladstone was a statesman and four-time prime minister of Great Britain (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, 1892–94). Gladstone was of purely Scottish descent. His father, John, made himself a merchant prince and was a member of Parliament (1818–27). Gladstone was sent to Eton, where he did not.
17 de may. de 2024 · Originally a German cruise ship, the ship was seized by the Nazi regime and used to transport troops during the Second World War. She was captured by the British at the end of the war and renamed the Empire Windrush. In 1948, she happened to stop over at Kingston, Jamaica, to pick up some British servicemen. Since the ship was not full, passage ...
20 de may. de 2024 · Queen Victoria indicated that she would like to present the medals in person and she presented 185 medals out of the 472 gazetted during her reign. Including the first 62 medals presented at a parade in Hyde Park on 26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria, nearly 900 awards have been personally presented to the recipient by the reigning British monarch.
Hace 6 días · Date: 24 May 2024. Author: Gabrielle Fields. In November 1839, two years into her reign, Queen Victoria announced her engagement to Prince Albert. The couple had met at Kensington Palace, and Victoria had soon proposed marriage to the handsome man she called 'an angel'. It was a big moment for Victoria, and for the country.
Hace 6 días · Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary Wars and was promoted to lieutenant general by the age of nineteen, but he ...
22 de may. de 2024 · Kindred spirits: Queen Victoria by photographer Alexander Bassano, 1882, and Vincent Namatjira’s portrait of Gina Rinehart. Bassano, Namatjira. Women like us are more interested in hegemony than ...
16 de may. de 2024 · While the social background of an acceptable debutante expanded, the rituals at court became increasingly formalised in the 19th century – as Fiona MacCarthy notes: “By 1837, when Queen Victoria ascended the throne, the term ‘debutante’ was in general use and young girls would be summoned to Queen Victoria’s drawing rooms, then held in St. James’ Palace, to make their entrée to ...
