Mr Stedall wrote: "Elizabeth IIis descended from Henry VIII's sister, Queen Margaret of Scotlandthe grandmother of Mary Queen of Scots. "Mary's son, James I of England had a daughter, Elizabeth 'the Winter Queen' who married Frederick V, the Elector Palatine. How many illegitimate sons did...
Catherine’s father was the child of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Therefore Catherine was the first cousin of Anne Boleyn and the niece of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. After a rather lax upbringing in the household of her grandmother, the...
"Magpies" is the story of an old, native, grandmother who lives in the city. She always talks about death and dying. She is afraid of being buried in the grave like white people of the city. She is in love with nature and wants to be buried according to her own rituals and traditio...
James was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and her second husband Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley. He was descended through the Scottish kings from Robert the Bruce, and the English Tudors through his great grandmother Margaret Tudor sister of Henry VIII. His parent’s marriage was short-lived and...
a marble tomb featuring an elaborate canopy and a white marble effigy at the feet of which stands a crowned Scottish lion. The eldest son of King James I, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, was also buried in the Queen’s vault (she was his grandmother), probably due to lack of space....
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge KG KT ADC, is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and his first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales. His paternal grandparents are Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is second in line to succeed his grandmother, after his fath...
[…] When he came home empty handed at night, he knew his father would curse him and thrash him first, and that when he was done the awful grandmother would do it all over again and improve on it; and that away in the night his starving mother would slip to him stealthily wit...
and accepted them. Among the women, Bertie socialized with were: the actressLillie Langtry;Lady Randolph Churchill(born Jennie Jerome in the USA, was the mother of Winston Churchill);Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick; actressSarah Bernhardt; andAlice Keppel, the great-grandmother ofQueen ...
Arthur, Eleanor’s brother, had a good claim to the throne. He was, after all, the son of John’s elder brother but John was an adult who was not a pawn of the French in the way that Arthur became. In 1202 Arthur was captured after he laid siege to his grandmother Eleanor of Aqu...
Let's take a closer look at the ancestry of King Charles III and the British royal family tree.