following the ceremony, she took the title princess of Wales. The couple’s first child,Prince William of Wales, became at his birth (June 21, 1982) second in line ofsuccessionto the throne. Their second child,Prince Henry Charles Albert David(known as Harry), was born on September 15, ...
It started, directly, in the London palace of Henry III, and was the result of a quarrel between the King and his powerful brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. View in context Now it chanced that shortly after Chaka had spoken thus, my sister Baleka, the king's wife...
Mary Tudor was Henry's younger sister. As a teenager, she fell in love with Charles Brandon, but was forced to marry the much-older king of France. Mary negotiated a promise from Henry that when her elderly husband died, she could marry whomever she chose. After the French king's death...
it featured 30 statues in niches but only six – depicting saints – now remain. The lengthy Latin inscription written on the grille lauds King Henry as “a wise and watchful monarch, a courteous lover of virtue” among other superlatives. There are further inscriptions on the monument. ...
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was launched to ease Parker Bowles into public life and hopefully rehabilitate her image. In 1998 she reportedly met Prince Charles’s sons,WilliamandHarry. The following year Prince Charles and Parker Bowles made their first public appearance together, attending a birthday party for her sister. ...
During the 1170s Baldwin served in the household of Henry II’s eldest son Henry The Young King. He made a lifelong friendship with another younger son struggling to make his own way in the world – William Marshal. Like Marshal as well as serving the Young King and Henry II, Baldwin of...
The King's Colonials - The Badges, History, Uniforms, Medals and Nominal Rolls of the King's Colonials, King Edward's Horse and 2nd King Edward's Horse
He was not, however, the first bear to live there – King Henry III had been given a polar bear by King Haakon IVHaakonsson of Norway in 1251 (George, however, was apparently unimpressed with his gift, said to have commented in private that he would have preferred a tie or pair of ...
Henry George “Harry” Ferguson, a Britishmechanicand inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modernagricultural tractorand itsthree-point linkagesystem, for being the first person in Ireland to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive...