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Sep 20, 2022 · At the time, divorcees weren't allowed to remarry in the Church of England and Margaret required her sister's permission to wed before the age of 25. But in October 1955, the princess chose the ...
Apr 11, 2017 · Margaret of England was the daughter of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. In 1251 she married Alexander of Scotland and became Queen of Scotland. Margaret was only 11 years old at the time of her marriage. Alexander the King was only 10. A group of Barons ruled Scotland, and because of the ages of the couple, the Barons housed ...
Margaret was born in 1046 and was a member of an ancient English royal family. She was a direct descendant of King Alfred and was the granddaughter of King Edmund Ironside of England through his son Edward. Along with her family Margaret had been exiled to the eastern continent when King Canute and his Danish army had overrun England.
Margaret Clitherow. Margaret Clitherow (1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, [2] known as "the Pearl of York ". She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. She was canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI .
Apr 11, 2024 · Margaret Thatcher (born October 13, 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England—died April 8, 2013, London) was a British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe ’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation ...
Jul 23, 2019 · Margaret of Anjou (March 23, 1429–August 25, 1482) was the queen consort of Henry VI of England and a leader of the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses (1455–1485), a series of battles for the English throne between the houses of York and Lancaster, both of which descended from Edward III. Her marriage to the ineffectual, mentally ...
Portrait by Meynnart Wewyck, c. 1510. Lady Margaret Beaufort (usually pronounced: / ˈboʊfərt / BOH-fərt or / ˈbjuːfərt / BEW-fərt; 31 May 1443 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late fifteenth century, and mother of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch. [1] A descendant of King Edward III ...
