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5 giorni fa · Mary of Teck (born May 26, 1867, Kensington Palace, London—died March 24, 1953, London) was the queen consort of King George V of Great Britain and the mother of kings Edward VIII (afterward duke of Windsor) and George VI.
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4 giorni fa · Otto Gessler. Charles Edward (Leopold Charles Edward George Albert; [note 1] 19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954) was at various points in his life a British prince, a German duke and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918.
5 giorni fa · Proposed candidates included the Austrian duke Francis of Teck or a member of the German royal House of Hohenzollern. [18] [19] However, George was the most desirable candidate as he was more popular than his father, was an adult and was politically inexperienced, so was seen as easily more controllable.
2 giorni fa · : 197 The Duchess of Teck stayed, with her daughter Mary (later queen consort of George V), in Malvern in the Autumn of 1891, joined by Lady Eva Greville. and the Duke of Teck. The Duchess was "perfectly enchanted with Malvern and its surroundings" and, with the Duke, visited Malvern College.
4 giorni fa · Charles I, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1625–49), whose authoritarian rule and quarrels with Parliament provoked a civil war that led to his execution. He carried on the belief in royal absolutism that was advocated by his father, James I, who began the antagonistic relationship with Parliament during his reign.
- Charles I was the king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1625 to 1649. Like his father, James I, and grandmother Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles I ru...
- Charles I was born in 1600 to James VI of Scotland (who later became James I) and Anne of Denmark. He was a sickly child and was devoted to his bro...
- When his brother, Henry, died in 1612, Charles became heir to the throne. He formed an alliance with the duke of Buckingham. In the last 18 months...
- From the beginning of his reign, Charles I demonstrated a distrust of the House of Commons. Parliament was critical of his government, condemning h...
- On January 20, 1649, Charles I was brought before a specially constituted court and charged with high treason and “other high crimes against the re...
3 giorni fa · Anthony Blunt Getty: Images. A Russian spy lived a double life in the United Kingdom...and the Royal Family allegedly knew all about it. Anthony Blunt was the Windsors' chief art curator for decades but he was also one of the 'Cambridge Five' spy ring. A book called 'The Secret Royals: Spying And The Crown From Victoria To Diana' by Richard ...
3 giorni fa · British prince. Also known as: Prince William of Wales, Prince William, Duke of Cornwall and Cambridge, William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus. Written and fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
