Francis II n 1. (Biography) 1544–60, king of France (1559–60); son of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici; first husband of Mary, Queen of Scots 2. (Biography) 1768–1835, last Holy Roman Emperor (1792–1806) and, as Francis I, first emperor of Austria (1804–35). The Holy ...
1996. The couple finally divorced on August 28, 1996. A year later Diana died in an auto accident, and popular feeling for her, stronger even in death than in life, served to jeopardize the traditional form of monarchy that Charles represented. He subsequently spent much effort in modernizing...
Suzanne was born on May 10, 1491 at the Château de Châtellerault. She was the daughter of Pierre II, Duke of Bourbon and Anne of France, also known asAnne de Beaujeu. Anne was the eldest daughter ofKing Louis XI. Anne may have been disappointed in the birth of a daughter as opp...
Amid the public uproar, in 1995 Camilla Parker Bowles divorced her husband (who soon afterward married his own mistress), and Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorced the following year. In 1997 Princess Diana died in a car accident, causing an unprecedented outpouring of grief from the public...
Henry was born in 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire. He was crowned on the 5/6th August 1100 having purloined the English Crown from his older brother Robert who was traveling home from the First Crusade at the time William Rufus’s unfortunate accident. He died in 1135, his only legitimate sone ...
He served in France during the First World War, where he was killed in action in 1914 during the First Battle of Ypres. Collins had been mentioned in despatches and also represented the Royal Military Academy at cricket and rugby union. Birthplace: Hazaribagh, India Adil Rashid Age: 36 ...
by the red thread’s looping over and down their centers, and some of which are secured by being folded around or over the thread-secured parts. The dimensions of those parts vary, and other parts lie loose. This can lead to the guts of the book spilling out, surely not an accident!
At the age of three, Henry was created Duke of York and a year later he was appointed to the Order of the Garter. On November 14, 1501, ten-year-old Henry led Catherine of Aragon (the youngest daughter ofQueen Isabella I of CastileandKing Ferdinand II of Aragon), his brother Arthur’...
Both are mothers to two sons of the same age, and their idyllic domestic happiness is shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion, and paranoia bleed into their friendship as a psychological battle of wills gives way to a darker side of the maternal instinct.“That was the hardest ...
It's a fact that the practice of medieval jousting in France was brought to a halt by the fatal accident that struck King Henry II in 1559. This led to the development of other equestrian activities, in particular carrousels, large-scale equestrian shows featuring demonstrations of dressage and...