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5 days ago · Children of Thyra and Ernest Augustus. Finding a suitable husband for Princess Thyra of Denmark was an undertaking for her mother, Queen Louise. However, Louise had one potential suitor in mind for Thyra: Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. Eventually, Thyra married Ernest Augustus, which gave her the desired opportunity to have children.
5 days ago · Henry, Lord Clifford (fn. n2), was created Earl of Cumberland in 1525. The title became extinct by the death of Henry, the fifth Earl, in 1643. The following year King Charles created his cousin, Prince Rupert, Duke of Cumberland; the title became extinct at his death, in 1682. Prince George of Denmark, created Duke of Cumberland in 1689, died ...
3 days ago · 1. This awful summons of war was a cross-stick with blood on one end and fire on the other. Rae, History of the Rebellion of 1715. 2. James Radcliffe, 3rd and last earl of Derwentwater, was allied by consanguinity to the "Chevalier," his mother having been a natural daughter of Charles II.
3 days ago · An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745, by David Morier. On April 16, 1746, on the moor of Culloden in Scotland, the British government army clashed with Jacobite forces. The Jacobites, led by the claimant to the throne, Charles Edward Stuart, fought to restore the Stuart dynasty to power in Britain. The better-equipped and organized Hanoverian ...
3 days ago · Lord Chamberlain 1660–1837. According to The Present State of the British Court, The Lord Chamberlain has the Principal Command of all the Kings (or Queens) Servants above Stairs (except in the Bedchamber, which is wholly under the Grooms [ sic] of the Stole) who are all Sworn by him, or by his Warrant to the Gentlemen Ushers.
4 days ago · On 20th May 1536, King Henry VIII got betrothed to the woman who'd become his third wife, Jane Seymour. It was just a day after his second wife, Anne Boleyn, had been executed.
3 days ago · Louis: The French Prince Who Invaded England. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2016, ISBN: 9780300217452; 296pp.; Price: £19.99. Louis VIII, king of France from 1223 to 1226, is not a monarch who has drawn significant attention from historians. His reign of just three years stands trapped between the nearly 43-year reign of his father ...
