also Aldgyth or Edith in modern English, was a daughter of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, the wife of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (d. 1063), ruler of all Wales, and...
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Edith of Wessex (Old English: Ealdgyth; c. 1025 – 18 December 1075) was Queen of England through her marriage to Edward the Confessor from 1045 until Edward's...
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Anne of Cleves (German: Anna von Kleve; 1515 – 16 July 1557) was Queen of England from 6 January to 12 July 1540 as the fourth wife of Henry VIII. Little...
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Jane Seymour (redirect from Jane, queen consort of Henry VIII of England)
Seymour (/ˈsiːmɔːr/; c. 1508 – 24 October 1537) was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her...
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Harold Godwinson (redirect from Harold II of England)
Hardrada and Tostig defeated the English earls Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria at the Battle of Fulford near York on 20 September 1066. Harold led...
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Catherine Parr (redirect from Catherine Parr, Queen of England)
Kateryn; c. August 1512 – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 12 July 1543...
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Margaret Tudor (redirect from Margaret, queen-dowager of Scotland)
second child of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the elder sister of Henry VIII of England. By her line, the House of Stuart eventually...
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Catherine Howard (redirect from Catherine Howard, Queen of England)
February 1542) was Queen of England from July 1540 until November 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and...
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Catherine of Aragon (also spelt as Katherine, historical Spanish: Catharina, now: Catalina; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England as...
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Queen Camilla (redirect from Camilla, queen consort of Charles III of Great Britain)
Parker Bowles, 17 July 1947) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III. Camilla was raised in...
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Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437) was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of King Charles VI of France...
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married Edith of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland. His second wife was Adeliza of Louvain. Agatha, betrothed to Harold II of England, Alfonso...
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Anne Boleyn (redirect from Anne Boleyn, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke)
1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by...
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Elizabeth of York (11 February 1466 – 11 February 1503) was Queen of England from her marriage to King Henry VII on 18 January 1486 until her death in...
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Edith the Fair (Old English: Ealdgȳð Swann hnesce, "Edyth the Gentle Swan"; born c. 1025, died c. 1086), also known as Edith Swanneck, was one of the...
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le Bel) or Plantagenet, was the count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also duke of Normandy by his marriage claim, and conquest...
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included on coming of age or after they have completed their education." The website of the royal family also provides a list of "Members of the Royal Family"...
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2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI...
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such...
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Elizabeth de Burgh (redirect from Elizabeth, Queen of Scots)
daughter of one of the most powerful Norman nobles in the Lordship of Ireland at that time, Richard Óg de Burgh, the 2nd Earl of Ulster, a member of the noble...
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A royal consort is the spouse of a reigning monarch. Consorts of British monarchs have no constitutional status or power but many have had significant...
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1544 – 5 December 1560) was King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King of Scotland as the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1558 until his death...
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Matilda of Scotland (originally christened Edith, 1080 – 1 May 1118), also known as Good Queen Maud, was Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy as the...
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Ælfthryth also appears to have been connected to the family of Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia. Edgar married Ælfthryth in either 964 or 965. In 966 Ælfthryth...
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Isabella of Valois (9 November 1389 – 13 September 1409) was Queen of England as the wife of Richard II, King of England, between 1396 and 1399, and Duchess...
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Elizabeth Woodville (redirect from Elizabeth, Queen Consort of Edward IV of England)
the daughter of Peter I, Count of Saint-Pol. Elizabeth's first marriage was to a minor supporter of the House of Lancaster, John Grey of Groby. He died...
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Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II...
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Herbert J. (1885). The History of Wargrave. London: W. Smith. Stafford, Pauline (2001). Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century...
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Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions...
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Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (redirect from Henry Stuart, Duke of Albany)
Lord Darnley (1546 – 10 February 1567) was King of Scotland as the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 29 July 1565 until his murder in 1567...
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