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Hace 3 días · The blood lines of the British royal family can be traced back to the 9th Century or 1,209 years and 37 generations. Along with each inception comes a lineage of royal titles, including the Baron ...
Hace 2 días · Elizabeth was the elder daughter of Prince Albert, duke of York, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.As the child of a younger son of King George V, the young Elizabeth had little prospect of acceding to the throne until her uncle, Edward VIII (afterward duke of Windsor), abdicated in her father’s favour on December 11, 1936, at which time her father became King George VI and she became ...
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Hace 4 días · House of Windsor, the royal house of the United Kingdom, which succeeded the house of Hanover on the death of its last monarch, Queen Victoria, on January 22, 1901. The dynasty includes Edward VII (reigned 1901–10), George V (1910–36), Edward VIII (1936), George VI (1936–52), Elizabeth II (1952–2022), and Charles (from 2022).
Hace 3 días · Funeral of the countess of Arundel. A full account of this funeral is preserved in the College of Arms, I. 15, ff. 266 et seq. The lady was previously countess of Sussex, and a letter written under that signature in 1537 has been published in Miss Wood's Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies, vol. ii. p. 306.
Hace 2 días · STANMER (fn. 1) Stanmere (viii cent. onwards); Stammer (xvii cent.). Stanmer is a Downland parish lying on the southern slopes of the main range, below Ditchling Beacon. The parish stretches from south-west to north-east for about 2½ miles. Its shape is approximately a rhombus, its greatest width being about 1½ miles.
Hace 3 días · Elizabeth also presided over a major expansion of England‘s naval power, culminating in the celebrated defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Her 1588 speech to the troops at Tilbury is considered one of the greatest orations in English history, with Elizabeth declaring: "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...
Hace 1 día · War Cross. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, [1] later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 [fn 1] – 9 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he was the consort of the British monarch from his wife's accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving ...
