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Hace 3 días · John Stuart (1744-1814), Lord Mountstuart, later 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute by Jean Etienne Liotard, 1763. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1718-1794), Wife of John Patrick Crichton Stuart 3rd Earl of Bute, print after Christian Friedrich Zincke, 1830s, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery of London, NPG D34619.
Hace 5 días · The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
Hace 4 días · As John White, the Bishop of Winchester, observed during Mary’s December 1558 funeral sermon, “She was a king’s daughter, she was a king’s sister, she was a king’s wife. She was a queen ...
Hace 4 días · William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st marquess of Lansdowne (born May 13, 1737, Dublin—died May 7, 1805, London) was a British statesman and prime minister (July 1782 to April 1783) during the reign of George III. The son of John Fitzmaurice, who took the additional name of Petty on succeeding to the Irish estates of his uncle and who was created ...
Hace 4 días · Plas Newydd is an enchanting mansion and gardens, with spectacular views of Snowdonia and the Menai Strait. Home of the Marquess of Anglesey, its previous historic residents include the 1st Marquess, who lost his leg during the Battle of Waterloo, and the flamboyant 5th Marquess.
Hace 5 días · When James V King of Scotland was born on 10 April 1512, in Linlithgow, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, his father, James IV King of Scotland, was 39 and his mother, Margaret Tudor Queen Consort of Scotland, was 22. He married Madeleine of Valois on 1 January 1537, in Notre-Dame, Le Havre, Normandy, France. He registered for military service in 1542.
Hace 5 días · Nearly a century after G.M. Trevelyan's England under the Stuarts was first published in 1904, Routledge has issued this very welcome reprint, with a new introduction by John Morrill. I found re-reading the book an immensely pleasurable experience.
