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14 hours ago · Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , Edward, nicknamed "Bertie", was related to royalty throughout Europe.
- Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January...
- George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20...
- Alexandra of Denmark
Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte...
- Princess Maud
Maud of Wales (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria; 26 November...
- Death and State Funeral of Edward VII
Funeral service of King Edward VII at Mussoorie India....
- Nellie Clifden
She is known for her brief sexual relationship with the...
- Albert Victor
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert...
- Alice Keppel
Alice Frederica Keppel (née Edmonstone; 29 April 1868 – 11...
- Coronation
The coronation of Edward VII and his wife, Alexandra, as...
- Emperor of India
Emperor or Empress of India was a title used by British...
- Queen Victoria
3 days ago · Built at the turn of the 20th century, Grand Royale London Hyde Park is steeped in Edwardian heritage. Society gossip at the time had it that the Prince of Wales (soon to be Edward VII) commissioned the building as a private residence for his former mistress Lillie Langtry.
14 hours ago · Sophia's son George Keppel and King Edward VII's mistress Alice Keppel were Camilla's maternal great-grandparents. Through Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, Camilla and Charles are ninth cousins once removed. In popular culture Waxwork of Charles and Camilla at Madame Tussauds, London
- 6 May 2023
- Camilla Rosemary Shand, 17 July 1947 (age 76), King's College Hospital, London, England
- 8 September 2022 – present
3 days ago · Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN: 9780199659838; 416pp.; Price: £54.00. As Professor Gunn observes in his foreword, this book has been a long time coming: first mooted in fact in 1985 (a very suitable date). This has had two significant consequences which I shall discuss ...
3 days ago · Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration . Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton and his Anglo ...
- William Lachlan Forbes
- Kathleen Shackleton (sister)
4 days ago · The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780300163353; 336pp.; Price: £45.00. By all accounts, ‘the Edwardian’ is a difficult historical period to define. Sandwiched between two momentous historical eras, the Edwardian years seem to lack a coherent identity ...
2 days ago · By Elizabeth Williams / May 14, 2024 2:15 pm EST. In December 1936, King Edward VIII shocked the world with his abdication announcement. He would leave everything behind for his love: an American divorcée named Wallis Simpson. Long before Meghan Markle's marriage history shocked the English blue bloods, Simpson was the topic of conversation ...
