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20 de mai. de 2024 · Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st marquess of Milford Haven (born May 24, 1854, Graz, Austria—died Sept. 11, 1921, London, Eng.) was a British admiral of the fleet and first sea lord, who was responsible, with Winston Churchill, for the total mobilization of the fleet prior to World War I.
9 de mai. de 2024 · William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st marquess of Lansdowne (born May 13, 1737, Dublin—died May 7, 1805, London) was a British statesman and prime minister (July 1782 to April 1783) during the reign of George III.
21 de mai. de 2024 · Politics. Churches & Cathedrals. Mary and Anne Boleyn went to France as ladies in waiting while their youngest Boleyn girl went to Scotland to serve Margaret Tudor of Scotland and England. When she returned to England one year earlier that was when everything changes in being a mistress to the King of England.
Há 5 dias · The village stands in the S. of the parish, on both banks of the R. Crane. Until 1894 the parishes of Alderholt and Verwood were part of Cranborne. Creneburne and Bovehric (Boveridge), the latter 1¼ miles N.E. of Cranborne village, are both named in Domesday ( V.C.H., Dorset iii, 67, 74).
23 de mai. de 2024 · Archibald Campbell, 1st marquess and 8th earl of Argyll, leader of Scotland’s anti-Royalist party during the English Civil Wars between King Charles I and Parliament. Allying himself with Oliver Cromwell, he guided his country to a brief period of independence from political and religious domination by England.
Há 1 dia · Groom of the Stole 1660–1837. The groom of the stole was the effective head of the royal bedchamber, with the right to attend the Sovereign at all times and to regulate access to the bedchamber and closet even when absent. The office, which was invariably coupled with that of first gentleman or first lady of the bedchamber from 1660, was in ...
Há 2 dias · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole. Originally the gentlemen were sworn in pursuance of royal warrants directed to the lord chamberlain. (fn. 2) From 1685 to 1688 these warrants were directed to the groom ...
