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On This Day In History . 2 November 1470 . Edward V was born . 👑 Edward was born at Cheyneygates, the medieval house of the Abbot of Westminster, adjoining Westminster Abbey. His mother, Elizabeth Woodville, had sought sanctuary there from Lancastrians who had deposed his father, the Yorkist King Edward IV, during the course of the Wars of the Roses. . . About Edward; . ◼ Edward V was King of England from his father Edward IV’s death on 9 April 1483 until 26 June of the same year. He was never crowned, & his 86-day reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle & Lord Protector, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who succeeded him as Richard III on 26 June 1483; this was confirmed by the Act entitled Titulus Regius, which denounced any further claims through his father’s heirs. . ◼ Edward and his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, were the Princes in the Tower who disappeared after being sent to heavily guarded royal lodgings in the Tower of London. Responsibility for their deaths was widely attributed to Richard III, but the lack of any solid evidence & conflicting contemporary accounts suggest four other primary suspects. . ◼ Along with Edward VIII, and the disputed Matilda & Jane, Edward V is one of four English monarchs since the Norman Conquest never to have been crowned. As it is generally assumed that he died close to the time of his disappearance, he is the shortest-lived male monarch in English history, his great-nephew, who was crowned Edward VI, died in his sixteenth year. . . King Edward V portrait, by Unknown artist, c.1590-1620 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1470 #KingEdwardV #EdwardV #EdwardVofEngland #KingofEngland #HouseofYork #Plantagenet #EnglishMonarchy #RoyaltyinArt #History #WarsoftheRoses #BritishMonarchy #D2Nov #EdwardIV #elizabethwoodville #otd #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #HistoryFacts #theking #princesinthetower #toweroflondon #kingedwardiv #Edward #Royalfamily #Historicart #portraitpainting (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGL_HEDouO/?igshid=c0iesuh8eywy

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On This Day In Royal History . 2 November 1767 . Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn was born . . About Prince Edward; . . ◼ The Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn was the fourth son of King George III of the United Kingdom & the father of Queen Victoria. . ◼ Prince Edward was created Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Earl of Dublin on 23 April 1799 & , a few weeks later, appointed a General & commander-in-chief of British forces in North America, On 23 March 1802 he was appointed Governor of Gibraltar & nominally retained that post until his death. The Duke of Kent was appointed Field-Marshal of the Forces on 3 September 1805. . ◼ He was the first member of the royal family to live in North America for more than a short visit (1791–1800) &, in 1794, the first prince to enter the United States (travelling to Boston on foot from Lower Canada) after independence. . ◼ On June 27, 1792, Edward is credited with the first use of the term “Canadian” to mean both French & English settlers in Upper & Lower Canada. The Prince used the term in an effort to quell a riot between the two groups at a polling station in Charlesbourg, Lower Canada. . ◼ Recently he has been styled the “Father of the Canadian Crown” for his impact on the development of Canada. . ◼ He married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, in 1818, They had one child, Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent (b.24 May 1819 – d.22 January 1901), who became Queen Victoria on 20 June 1837. The Duke took great pride in his daughter, telling his friends to look at her well, for she would be Queen of the United Kingdom. . ◼ The Duke of Kent died of pneumonia on 23 January 1820 at Woolbrook Cottage, Sidmouth, & was interred in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. He died only six days before his father, George III, & less than a year after his daughter’s birth. He predeceased his father & his three elder brothers but, as none of his elder brothers had any surviving legitimate children, his daughter Victoria succeeded to the throne on the death of her uncle King William IV in 1837. . . . #thisdayinhistory #d2nov #Theyear1767 #PrinceEdward #DukeofKent #DukeofStrathearn #HouseofHanover (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGOoPuD6T4/?igshid=1jfn1gns77kjx

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On This Day In Royal History . 2 November 1709 . Anne, Princess Royal, & later Princess of Orange was born . 👑 Anne was born at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, five years before her paternal grandfather, Elector George Louis, succeeded to the British throne as George I. She was christened shortly after birth at Herrenhausen Palace. She was named after her paternal grandfather’s second cousin Anne, Queen of Great Britain. . ◼ Anne, Princess Royal & Princess of Orange was the second child & eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain & his consort, Caroline of Ansbach. . ◼ She was the spouse of William IV, Prince of Orange, the first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands. . ◼ Princess Anne was the second daughter of a British sovereign to hold the title Princess Royal. . ◼ She was Regent of the Netherlands from 1751 until her death in 1759 (12 January) from dropsy, exercising extensive powers on behalf of her son William V. . ◼ Because of her English upbringing & family connections, she was known as an Anglophile - despite being unable to convince the Dutch Republic to enter the Seven Years’ War on the side of the British. . ◼ The princess took drawing & painting lessons from Herman van der Mijn & made a self-portrait of herself in 1740 that is in the collection of the House of Orange-Nassau Historic Collections Trust. She also made a portrait of Van der Mijn himself while he was at work making portraits of other family members. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1709 #AnnePrincessRoyal #PrincessAnne #PrincessofOrange #HouseofHanover #HouseofOrange #EnglishMonarchy #DutchMonarchy #PrincessRoyal #BritishMonarchy #D2Nov #royalfamily #otd #OnThisDay #Historyfacts #hanover #princess #georgeii #kinggeorgeii #carolineofansbach #herrenhausen #herrenhausenpalace 🎨 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 (at Hanover, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGN82Bjyy3/?igshid=5d33qtc0hn95

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On This Day In History . 2 November 1083 . Matilda of Flanders died . . About Matilda; . 👑 Matilda of Flanders was born around 1031. She was the wife of William the Conqueror &, as such, Queen of England. She bore William nine or ten children who survived to adulthood, including two kings, William II & Henry I. . ◼ As a niece & granddaughter of kings of France, Matilda was of grander birth than William, who was illegitimate,& according to some suspiciously romantic tales, she initially refused his proposal on this account. Her descent from the Anglo-Saxon royal House of Wessex was also to become a useful card. Like many royal marriages of the period, it breached the rules of consanguinity, then at their most restrictive (to seven generations or degrees of relatedness); Matilda & William were third-cousins, once removed. She was about 20 when they married in 1051/2; William was some three years older, & had been Duke of Normandy since he was about eight. . ◼ The marriage appears to have been successful, Matilda was about 35, & had already produced most of her children, when William embarked on the Norman conquest of England, sailing in his flagship Mora, which Matilda had given him. She governed the Duchy of Normandy in his absence, joining him in England only after more than a year, & subsequently returning to Normandy, where she spent most of the remainder of her life, while William was mostly in his new kingdom. She was about 51 when she died in Normandy in 1083. . ◼ Apart from governing Normandy & supporting her brother’s interests in Flanders, Matilda took a close interest in the education of her children, who were unusually well educated for contemporary royalty. The boys were tutored by the Italian Lanfranc, who was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1070, while the girls learned Latin in Sainte-Trinité Abbey in Caen, founded by William & Matilda as part of the papal dispensation allowing their marriage. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1083 #d2nov #MatildaofFlanders #HouseofFlanders #History #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #otd #RoyalHistory #Flanders #QueenofEngland #QueenConsort #MedievalHistory #Normans #WilliamtheConqueror (at Caen, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGKcbADksl/?igshid=f0d5e8a7o399

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On This Day In History . 2 November 1767 . Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn was born . . About Prince Edward; . . ◼ The Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn was the fourth son of King George III of the United Kingdom & the father of Queen Victoria. . ◼ Prince Edward was created Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Earl of Dublin on 23 April 1799 & , a few weeks later, appointed a General & commander-in-chief of British forces in North America, On 23 March 1802 he was appointed Governor of Gibraltar & nominally retained that post until his death. The Duke of Kent was appointed Field-Marshal of the Forces on 3 September 1805. . ◼ He was the first member of the royal family to live in North America for more than a short visit (1791–1800) &, in 1794, the first prince to enter the United States (travelling to Boston on foot from Lower Canada) after independence. . ◼ On June 27, 1792, Edward is credited with the first use of the term "Canadian" to mean both French & English settlers in Upper & Lower Canada. The Prince used the term in an effort to quell a riot between the two groups at a polling station in Charlesbourg, Lower Canada. . ◼ Recently he has been styled the "Father of the Canadian Crown" for his impact on the development of Canada. . ◼ He married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, in 1818, They had one child, Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent (b.24 May 1819 – d.22 January 1901), who became Queen Victoria on 20 June 1837. The Duke took great pride in his daughter, telling his friends to look at her well, for she would be Queen of England. . ◼ The Duke of Kent died of pneumonia on 23 January 1820 at Woolbrook Cottage, Sidmouth, & was interred in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He died only six days before his father, George III, & less than a year after his daughter's birth. He predeceased his father & his three elder brothers but, as none of his elder brothers had any surviving legitimate children, his daughter Victoria succeeded to the throne on the death of her uncle King William IV in 1837. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #d2nov #Theyear1767 #PrinceEdward #DukeofKent #DukeofStrathearn #HouseofHanover (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BprMgpZlIb8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u837qrirm0uh