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HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY TO THE BOSS BABY, HRH PRINCE LOUIS ARTHUR CHARLES OF WALES (B. 23 April 2018) ♡
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From the beginning, Anne stood out from the crowd.
John Guy and Julia Fox, Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
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BBC’s The Virgin Queen + mentions of Anne Boleyn
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Zhou Xun as Ula-Nara Ruyi Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace 如懿传 Episode 2
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Royal Birthdays for today, April 22nd:
Isabel I, Queen of Castile and León, 1451
Antoine, King of Navarre, 1518
Maria Anna Ferdinanda, Archduchess of Austria , 1770
Marie Valerie, Archduchess of Austria, 1868
Margaret of Prussia, Landgravine of Hesse, 1872
Francesca, Princess of Bourbon Parma, 1890
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, 1906
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the wii is considered a retro console now.
THE WII IS CONSIDERED A WHAT.
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28th of February 1947 on their voyage to South Africa, 21 year old Princess Elizabeth plays tag with the officers and midshipmen onboard HMS Vanguard
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A portrait of the comtesse de Provence by Charles Leclercq, circa 1780s. The portrait is held in the collection of the Château de Sassenage.
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Elizabeth II was given the full name of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary.
Elizabeth was for her mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, then the Duchess of York.
Alexandra was after her great grandmother, Alexandra of Denmark, who had died six months before her birth.
Mary was for her paternal grandmother, Mary of Teck, who was Queen at the time of Elizabeth’s birth.
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it's just so eerie, chilling even, to consider that at this point in April 1536, right after Easter, Anne was still being publicly feted as the king's beloved wife/the eventual mother of the future king...all while she, in fact, had less than a month to live.
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🎉Happy Birthday🎉 to Queen Elizabeth, seen here with her uncle the Duke of Kent, prince George in 1931
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The future Queen Elizabeth II was born at 2:40am on April 21st, 1926. Complying with the ancient custom of ensuring a bogus baby swap had not occurred, the home secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, was present in the Strathmore’s house at the time of the birth. At 4:00am, a courtier awakened the King and Queen with the news. “Such relief and joy,” Queen Mary wrote in her diary.
In an odd coincidence, the King and Queen gave a small luncheon that day for a group of royal relatives including Princess Alice of Battenberg - the mother of the infant’s future husband, four-year-old Prince Philip. But it was Chips Channon - shrewdly applying his knowledge of the many flaws of the Prince of Wales, still unmarried and immature at aged thirty-two - who won the prize for prescience. “I have a feeling the child will be Queen of England,” he wrote in his diary.
George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy - Sally Bedell Smith
Today marks what would have been Queen Elizabeth II's 98th birthday, and to mark the occasion, a new statue of her surrounded by her beloved corgis has been unveiled in Rutland's county town of Oakham.
The statue is the first to be commissioned since her death in September 2022, and is set to be a permanent fixture paying tribute to England's longest reigning monarch. The 7ft (2.1m) bronze statue features a somewhat younger Queen Elizabeth II in her crown and what appears to be robes of the Order of the Thistle, surrounded by four adoring corgis.
On display outside Oakham Library, the artwork was commissioned by the Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, Dr. Sarah Furness, told Oakham Nub News it was in response to the "depth of loss felt in Rutland on the late Queen's death".
Royal Birthdays for today, April 21st:
Sancho VI, King of Navarre, 1132
Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empress, 1673
Elisabeth of Württemberg, Archduchess of Austria, 1767
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, 1926
Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, 2007
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Princess Anne + members of the Royal Family:
↳ Queen Elizabeth II