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King Charles I was born at Dunfermline Palace in on 19 November 1600.

Photo: Charles I with Monsieur de St Antoine by Anthony van Dyck, 1633.

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2021-11-19

1653 - Oliver Cromwell is sworn in as Lord Protector of England, Scotland & Ireland. Aged 54, he was the only man to hold position & wore plain black attire. He was referred to as "Your Highness" / "Sir".

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2020-12-16

Born 1867, Louise, Princess Royal, later Duchess of Fife; third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (at that time Prince & Princess of Wales). Here she is as a baby, & then with her own two daughters, Alexandra & Maud

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2019-02-20

Boots of purple glace kid, c.1910, belonging to Queen Alexandra, who was born in 1844. Photograph by Peter Yapp from the Historic Royal Palaces Collection at our library.

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2018-12-02

in 1660, Britain is about to get a whole lot merrier when King Charles II arrives in Dover to claim the throne. Coincidentally, he gets married too a year later, to the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza

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2018-05-26

On All Things The Duke of Clarence's Views on Marriage.
https://t.co/eSR1U8QtyH

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2017-10-12