Glorious Georges

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Queen Mary, wife of George V
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HRH Prince George and HRH Princess Marina with their children HRH Prince Edward, HRH Princess Alexandra and baby Prince Michael. Tragically, on Aug. 25,1942 HRH the Duke of Kent( age 39) died in a military plane crash. HRH Prince Michael was only a few weeks old ,having been born on July 4,1942. HRH Princess Marina died (age 62) on Aug.27,1968,hours after it was announced that she had a brain tumour.
Prince Albert, later King George VI, marches with his regiment, the Grenadier Guards, in 1914. Queen Elizabeth Father, Duke Of Windsor, Grenadier Guards, Tv Competition, Ww1 British, Edward Viii, Remembrance Sunday
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Prince Albert, later King George VI, marches with his regiment, the Grenadier Guards, in 1914.
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King George V visits the graves of British soldiers killed in battles at Ypres.
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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
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Queen Mary pictured visiting a convalescent camp in Eastbourne, where injured soldiers were treated.
WW1 was a defining period for the Royal Family.The Royal Family, including King George V, Queen Mary and Princess Mary (left), pose for a picture in January 1916. Royal Family Portrait, Christmas Tea Party, Summer Garden Party
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WW1 was a defining period for the Royal Family.The Royal Family, including King George V, Queen Mary and Princess Mary (left), pose for a picture in January 1916.
Cartier made this enamel and diamond cocktail watch in 1924. Once owned by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and inscribed with “Elizabeth 1924,” Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and wife of Prince Albert, had been given this watch by her brother-in-law, the future King Edward VIII of England. Following his abdication in 1936, Prince Albert was crowned George VI of England, and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon became his queen. Watches Cartier, Cocktail Watch, Duchess Of Windsor, Famous Jewelry, Jewelry Cartier, Royal Jewellery
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Cartier made this enamel and diamond cocktail watch in 1924. Once owned by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and inscribed with “Elizabeth 1924,” Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and wife of Prince Albert, had been given this watch by her brother-in-law, the future King Edward VIII of England. Following his abdication in 1936, Prince Albert was crowned George VI of England, and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon became his queen.
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George IV. George IV was known for his extravagant lifestyle. He had many mistresses, spent ludicrous amounts of money and drank and ate to great excess. As Prince, he secretly and illegally married the Catholic actress Maria Fitzherbert but, to get a legitimate heir, he married Caroline of Brunswick.The marriage was not a success and after the birth of their daughter he tried to divorce her.
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George III. George III was a cultured king who had fifteen children and was the first of the Hanoverian Kings to have been born in Britain. He is known for suffering periods of ‘madness’ and losing the American colonies. However, he was also an active patron of the arts and sciences with a keen interest in architecture and agricultural developments.
George II. Notoriously short tempered, George II was a military enthusiast with a powerful and accomplished wife. In the first ten years of George II’s reign, Kensington Palace was the glittering centre of court life where politicians, intellectuals and fashionable people vied for favour. Knights Of Malta, King Alfred, Hillsborough Castle, King George Ii, Bible Kjv, Fact Or Fiction, An Inconvenient Truth, Military Orders, Human Genome
George II. Notoriously short tempered, George II was a military enthusiast with a powerful and accomplished wife. In the first ten years of George II’s reign, Kensington Palace was the glittering centre of court life where politicians, intellectuals and fashionable people vied for favour.
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George I. German born George I was a shy king who spoke very little English and missed his native Hanover. The King had a troubled personal life; he left his wife, Sophia Dorothea, imprisoned in a castle in Germany as she had been unfaithful and his relationship with his son Prince George (later George II) deteriorated into an open feud.
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The Hanoverian Succession. On 1 August 1714, Georg Ludwig, the ruler of Hanover, became King George I of Great Britain. He was the first of four kings named George who ruled Britain for the following 116 years.