A-Z of Royalty

Ann Princess Royal

B

Boudica - queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60.

C

Princess Beatrice

C

Canute - King of England 1016

D

Duke of Edinburgh


E

Edward the Elder - King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death in 924.

F

EDWARD (The Elder) 899 – 924
Succeeded his father Alfred the Great. Edward retook southeast England and the Midlands from the Danes. Following the death of his sister Aethelflaed of Mercia, Edward unites the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia. In 923, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles record that the Scottish King Constantine II recognises Edward as “father and lord”. The following year, Edward is killed in a battle against the Welsh near Chester. His body is returned to Winchester for burial.
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F

Fergie

G

George of Cambridge

H

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.

I

Isobella queen of Castille.

J

John ‘Lackland’ (r. 1199-1216)

John was King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine from 1199 until his death in 1216. As the fifth and last son of Henry II, he was not destined to ascend to the throne or to receive any territory as an inheritance. For this, he was nicknamed Lackland, meaning without a land, by his father.
He tried unsuccessfully to seize power while his brother was participating in the Third Crusade.
When he became king, he was immediately confronted with the threat posed by King Philip II of France on his continental territories that formed the Plantagenet Empire.

K

King Canute.
The story of King Canute and the tide is an apocryphal anecdote illustrating the piety or humility of King Canute the Great, recorded in the 12th century by Henry of Huntingdon.

L

Prince Louis of Cambridge (Louis Arthur Charles; born 23 April 2018)

M

Queen Mary I.

Also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death in 1558.
She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, Henry VIII.

N

Prince Nikolai of Denmark

O

Olaf the White (Old Norse: Óláfr hinn Hvíti) was a viking sea-king who lived in the latter half of the 9th century.

P

Prince Phillip (R.I.P.)

Q

Queen Anne, reigned 1702 to 1714.
Anne was the second daughter of James II.
She had 17 pregnancies but only one child survived, William, who died of smallpox aged just 11.
A staunch, high church Protestant, Anne was 37 years old when she succeeded to the throne.

R

Regina

S

King Stephen 1134 – 1154.
Stephen was a very weak king and the whole country was almost destroyed by the constant raids by the Scots and the Welsh. During Stephen’s reign the Norman barons wielded great power, extorting money and looting town and country. A decade of civil war known as The Anarchy ensued when Matilda invaded from Anjou in 1139. A compromise was eventually decided, under the terms of the Treaty of Westminster Matilda’s son Henry Plantagenet would succeed to the throne when Stephen died.

T

Tut



U

Ethelred the Unready (968-1016)

V

Queen Victoria

W

Prince William of Cambridge.

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