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George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (21 October 1449 – 18 February 1478), was the sixth child and third surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English kings Edward IV and Richard III. He played an important role in the dynastic struggle between rival factions of the Plantagenets now ...
Jun 26, 2023 · In 1478 George, 1st Duke of Clarence and brother to the King of England, was executed at the Tower of London. He was rumoured to have been drowned in a vat of malmsey wine. But how did his death come to pass? And was he really executed in the expensive wine by his own request, as some stories claim? A Troubled Childhood
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra).
Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 – 25 August 1942) was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. Prince George served in the Royal Navy in the 1920s and then briefly as a civil servant.
Feb 17, 2017 · The English Parliament passed a bill of attainder, and the Duke was privately executed in 18th of February 1478 in the Tower of London. Legends say he was he was forcibly drowned in a barrel of...
George Plantagenet, the ninth child and fifth son of Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville, was born in Dublin on October 21st, 1449, during his father’s Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland. Two of his elder brothers, Henry and John, died in infancy: a third, Edmund, was killed at the battle of Wakefield at the end of 1460, six months before the ...
Nov 1, 2018 · In the 1970s, it was even suggested that the prince was the notorious Whitechapel killer, Jack the Ripper. Here, Alan Robert Clark explores the life of Prince Eddy and the many questions the royal still raises…. Published: November 1, 2018 at 2:28 PM.
