Posts tagged with ‘monarchy’

  • This Day in History July 29, 1565 (UBC Day 29)

    By Ruth on July 28, 2013
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    I honestly never seem to grow tired of learning about the Tudors in English history.  And I think their popularity does seem to last throughout the ages.  On this date in 1565, widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, married her second cousin, Lord Darnley Henry Stuart.  If you know anything of her tumultuous reign, suspicions of murder, rumored affair, treasonous accusations, […]
  • This Day in History June 20, 1837

    By Ruth on June 20, 2013
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    I was quite excited when I found out today’s feature.  On this date in 1837, Queen Victoria began her famous reign as Queen of England.  She was only 18 at the time, and William IV, her uncle, had died that morning.  Her mother woke her up, and she was taken to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conynham to be […]