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2 days ago · In July 1939, Philip began corresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth, the elder daughter and heir presumptive of King George VI. During the Second World War , he served with distinction in the British Mediterranean and Pacific fleets.
3 days ago · The kings buried in the Abbey are Sebert, Edward the Confessor, Henry III., Edward I., Edward III., Richard II., Henry V., Edward V., Henry VII., Edward VI., James I., Charles II., William III., and George II.
4 days ago · Footage shows the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II's father, King George VI's funeral in 1952. The procession passed along Whitehall, where the Cenotaph was saluted, passed through Hyde Park,...
2 days ago · Trinity College, Cambridge. 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 ...
2 days ago · There are extant many sketches of the front of the Palace Gate on the day of a Levee or a Drawing-room under the later Stuarts and the Hanoverian sovereigns. The illustration on page 103 shows the king arriving in his coach with the company in carriages and sedan-chairs.
3 days ago · In 1693 he preached the Easter Day sermon before Queen Mary at Whitehall and later in the same year he could proudly claim that he was ‘chaplain to Their Majesties’ on the title page of a sermon concerning the Wisdom of Fearing God preached on 30 July at the Assize in Salisbury.
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4 days ago · The earl's son Spencer was killed, fighting for King Charles, in 1642. The house afterwards became a temporary prison for "malignants," like Gresham College and Lambeth Palace. In 1672 the great hall of the now neglected house was turned into a Presbyterian chapel.
