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1 day ago · On 23 June 1936, he was appointed a personal aide-de-camp to his eldest brother, Edward VIII. [15] Following his brother's abdication and the accession of his brother the Duke of York as George VI, Prince Henry was effectively retired from active duty, and received a ceremonial promotion to major-general on 1 January 1937, skipping three ranks ...
3 days ago · Elizabeth was the elder daughter of Prince Albert, duke of York, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.As the child of a younger son of King George V, the young Elizabeth had little prospect of acceding to the throne until her uncle, Edward VIII (afterward duke of Windsor), abdicated in her father’s favour on December 11, 1936, at which time her father became King George VI and she became ...
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2 days ago · Prince John (John Charles Francis; 12 July 1905 – 18 January 1919) was the fifth son and youngest of the six children of King George V and Queen Mary. At the time of his birth, his father was heir apparent to John's grandfather Edward VII. In 1910, John's father succeeded to the throne upon Edward VII's death, and John became fifth in the ...
5 days ago · Charles Spencer, the brother of the late Princess Diana, took to Instagram earlier this week to share a snap of his father in his Royal Scots Greys uniform, taken in the 1952 at the state funeral of George VI. ‘My father, in military mode, 70 years ago,’ he wrote in the caption.
2 days ago · Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, [1] [2] then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England fought between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1487.
3 days ago · United Kingdom - Edward VI (1547–53): Henry was succeeded by his nine-year-old son, Edward VI, but real power passed to his brother-in-law, Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford, who became duke of Somerset and lord protector shortly after the new reign began. Somerset ruled in loco parentis; the divinity of the crown resided in the boy king, but authority was exercised by an uncle who proved ...
3 days ago · George Floyd, a Black man, was killed by Officer Derek Chauvin on Monday, May 25, 2020, during an arrest in Minneapolis. Chauvin was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison after being found ...
