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Hace 4 días · For Mary Caroline, the shame of scandal was the price of the privilege and power she refused to relinquish. In brazenly wedding a Duke and spending his riches, this disreputable Duchess defied her era‘s strict social codes and made herself the master of her own fortune. Wallis Simpson (1896-1986) Duchess of Windsor
Hace 3 días · The Royal Marriages: Diplomacy and Duty. One of the most significant ways in which Queen Victoria‘s children influenced European history was through their marriages. Victoria and Albert believed that their children‘s unions should serve not only personal happiness but also political and diplomatic interests.
Hace 2 días · The Argyll Papers are the family and estate archive of the Duke of Argyll. Dating from the 13th century, the archive records 700 years of the family’s participation in Scottish, British and international events, their private lives and interests and the management of their extensive estates.
Hace 2 días · In 1891 Edward was embroiled in the royal baccarat scandal, when it was revealed he had played an illegal card game for money the previous year.
Hace 5 días · Edward VIII, prince of Wales (1911–36) and king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and emperor of India from January 20 to December 10, 1936, when he abdicated to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson. Edward VIII was the only British sovereign to voluntarily resign the crown.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 5 días · Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll died in London on May 25, 1878, while dining with the former Prime Minister Gladstone. She was just 53 years old. She is buried beside her husband in the Argyll Mausoleum at the Kilmun Parish Church in Kilmun, Scotland.
Hace 5 días · The leases of the western part of Millfield (which had been let to Morris and Browne) had been bought up piece-meal during the previous twenty years by the Duke of Argyll, who in 1732–3 purchased the freehold from Pollen and built over the ground which still remained open (see Chapter XIX).
