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1 day ago · Since 1714, Britain had shared a monarch with Hanover in Germany, but under Salic law women were excluded from the Hanoverian succession. While Victoria inherited all the British dominions, Hanover passed instead to her father's younger brother, her unpopular uncle the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, who became King of Hanover.
3 days ago · The House of Plantagenet [a] ( /plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also Counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the ...
- 12th century
- Geoffrey V of Anjou
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5 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 ...
4 days ago · Under Salic law, the Kingdom of Hanover passed to William's brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, ending the personal union of Britain and Hanover which had existed since 1714. Queen Victoria took up residence in Buckingham Palace , the first reigning British monarch to make this, rather than St James's Palace , her London home.
2 days ago · Order of the Bath ribbon bar. Coat of arms of the British monarch as sovereign of the Order of the Bath. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath [2] is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725. [3] The name derives from an elaborate medieval ceremony for preparing a candidate to receive his knighthood, of which ritual ...
- Service to the Crown
- currently constituted
- 18 May 1725; 298 years ago
- Tria juncta in uno ('Three joined in one') (Civil Division), Ich dien (Military Division)
4 days ago · Answer: Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold Gustav Adolf was the son of the former HRH Princess Margaret of Connaught, the elder daughter of Prince Arthur. Princess Sibylla, on the other hand, was the daughter of HRH Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the son of Prince Leopold. This union produced the current king of Sweden.
5 days ago · Augustus D. Juilliard (born April 19, 1836, at sea—died April 25, 1919, New York City) was a banker and industrialist who bequeathed the bulk of his multimillion dollar fortune for the advancement of musical education and opera production in the U.S. Born of French parents who emigrated to the U.S., he was raised in Ohio and became a director of several leading financial institutions.
