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...Charles I was beheaded in 1649; the House of Hanover was dogged by sex scandals; George III lost his mind and he also lost America, which wasn’t terribly popular....
...A quarter of a century later, in 1689, William III, representing himself and Queen Mary as anti-absolutists, brought members of the House of Commons into the Abbey by way of demonstrating that his would...
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...The highest is a late-17th century portrait plate of William III in English Delft (£1,400-£1,800); among the lowest is an 1831 jug featuring a portrait of William IV (£30-£50)....
...The King referred to his eldest son, Prince William, in his speech, saying that “the prince and princess of Wales” had recently made a successful public visit to Wales....
...Mourners hoping to view Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state in London were facing 17-hour-long queues on Saturday evening, as King Charles III and Prince William made a surprise appearance to the thousands...
...He will get one of the first of King Charles III’s telegrams, I say. “I don’t think telegrams exist any more,” he says. “And he doesn’t do email.”...
...The BBC has cancelled Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert hall while the Mercury Music Prize has also been delayed....
...His two sons, William, Prince of Wales, and Harry, Duke of Sussex, followed....
...Cornwall); Edward II (who gave it to his rumoured lover, Piers Gaveston); the Black Prince (father of Richard II); and Lord Williams of Thame, who built the current house on the medieval site....
...Napoleon III’s portraitist was not Manet, the era’s radical figure painter, but the tame Franz Winterhalter, also lured to Britain by Prince Albert....
...Elizabeth I (45 years on the throne), George III (almost 60 years) and Victoria (almost 64 years) all presided over periods of national and imperial expansion....
...Almost six centuries after the Habsburg family seat was established in Vienna by the arthritic Albert the Lame, the last emperor, Karl I, departed the imperial capital for good....
...A painting of William III hangs in the entrance to reflect the fact that the Prince of Orange spent several nights at nearby Hillsborough Fort before he gathered his armies on the Boyne in 1690 to defeat...
...King William III’s relaxed approach to gin licensing and the rapid growth in popularity that followed led to the alcohol-soaked decline of the populace, later portrayed in William Hogarth’s “Gin Lane”....
...This was especially hard on the actress Dorothea Jordan, who had borne the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, no fewer than 10 illegitimate FitzClarences....
...Cycling through the parks on my way to work at the Victoria and Albert Museum, I’m immersed in this poignant seasonal change....
...And, while her husband George III lost America, his mind and the throne, it was she (not Prince Albert) who imported the first English ornamental Christmas tree at Windsor Castle’s Queen’s Lodge in 1800....
...She long ago surpassed the other members of the 50-year-club, George III, Henry III and Edward III....
...III....
...She was, for periods, as “out of her mind” as her grandfather George III....
...“We don’t need them,” said Carol Williams, resident of Aboyne village. “A lot of money is thrown at the Queen and her hangers-on, and I don’t think they do very much for it.”...
...Bookmaker William Hill put Swansea Bay at 2-1, Leicester at 9-4, Hull at 11-4 and Dundee at 7-2. I wish them all luck....
...What effect will the naming choice of new parents William and Kate have on the rest of the country? The best indication comes from Prince William’s own birth....
...There was a bad run for the monarchy in the early 19th century: George III (1760-1820) became demented; George IV (1820-1830) was a licentious fat laughing-stock, and William IV (1830-1837) a dimwit....
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