a king abdicates(=gives up the position of being king)It shocked the nation when the king abdicated.adjectivesthe rightful king(=the person who should be king)The Duke of Gloucester claimed that he was the rightful king.the future king(=someone who will later be king)She married the future...
King of England (1066-1087) and duke of Normandy (1035-1087). He led the Norman invasion of England (1066) after being promised the English throne by his cousin Edward the Confessor. He defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings and as king adopted a feudal constitution. ...
Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry Wallis Simpson. Here, the couple is pictured in the Bahamas, where Edward served as governor between 1940 and 1945. Just days before making the most consequential decision of his short reign,Edward VIIIpaced...
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of King George III’s fourth son. After Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne in 1837, Prince George remained second in the line of succession after his father until Queen Victoria’s first child was born. Today his descendantPrince Ernst August of Hanoveris the senior male-line descendant ...
Her uncle abdicated the throne on 11 December 1936, leaving the monarchy to her father King George VI. At 11, the eldest daughter of George VI became the heir to the British throne. As a modern British monarch, Elizabeth saw many changes to the British institution. Forty former British ...
King Edward VIII succeeded to the throne on Jan. 20, 1936, at his father's death, but he abdicated on Dec. 11, 1936 (in order to marry an American divorcée, Wallis Warfield Simpson), in favor of his brother, who became George VI. ...
King Edward VIII succeeded to the throne on Jan. 20, 1936, at his father's death, but he abdicated on Dec. 11, 1936 (in order to marry an American divorcée, Wallis Warfield Simpson), in favor of his brother, who became George VI. ...
Also known as: Britain, Great Britain, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Written by Lacey Baldwin Smith Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Author ofTreason in Tudor Englandand others. ...
1) The king abdicated the throne.国王逊位。2) kinghood [英]['kiŋhud] [美]['kɪŋhʊd] 国王的王位3) the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxons 盎格鲁-撒克逊王国4) The king is hurled from his throne. 国王被逐出王位。5) to restore a king to his throne 使国王恢复王位...