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    Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor and James Mountbatten-Windsor, Earl of Wessex, who are respectively sixteenth and fifteenth in line to the British throne...
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    Wuna was the wife of Richard the Pilgrim and the mother of Willibald, Walpurga, and Winibald. She was from a noble family in Wessex. Some scholars have...
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    as Richard III professed Catholicism. The British royal family was represented by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Countess of Wessex. The...
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    43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division was an infantry division of Britain's Territorial Army (TA). The division was first formed in 1908, as the Wessex Division...
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    Cnut (category House of Wessex)
    1015 "[Cnut] came into Sandwich, and straightway sailed around Kent to Wessex, until he came to the mouth of the Frome, and harried in Dorset and Wiltshire...
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    Queen Elizabeth II's youngest child, Prince Edward, was created Earl of Wessex hours before the ceremony. Royal wedding: Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh...
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    November 1389 – 13 September 1409) was Queen of England as the wife of Richard II, King of England, between 1396 and 1399, and Duchess of Orléans as the...
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    East Anglia submitted to Edward and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Wessex. East Anglia was settled by the Anglo-Saxons earlier than many other regions...
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  • Countess of Wessex (as the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were then known) founded the Wessex Youth Trust, since renamed The Earl and Countess of Wessex Charitable...
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    the ball of Count von Krolock there are several historical figures among vampires, including Anne Neville and her husband King Richard III. Anne Neville...
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    Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for...
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    Hereditary Prince of Brunswick, Prince of Hanover (German: Ernst August Prinz von Hannover; 18 March 1914 – 9 December 1987) was head of the House of Hanover...
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    Walhalla (memorial) (category Leo von Klenze buildings)
    (1954) Joseph von Eichendorff (1957) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1959) Max von Pettenkofer (1962) Jakob Fugger (1967) Jean Paul (1973) Richard Strauss (1973)...
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    of the Great Heathen Army in about 870 and he led it in an invasion of Wessex. A great number of Viking warriors arrived from Scandinavia, as part of...
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  • Ælfthryth (or Elftrude or Elfrida), the daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex. The immediate goal of that Anglo-Flemish alliance was to help Baldwin control...
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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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  • Retrieved 14 April 2016. "New Chancellor is Director of arms company". WessexScene.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2016. "Dame Helen Alexander: Honorary Fellow"...
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    also disagree about her status. Simon Keynes and Richard Abels believe that leading figures in Wessex were unwilling to accept Æthelstan as king in 924...
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  • Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt 16th Army — Generaloberst Ernst Busch 9th Army — Generaloberst Adolf Strauss Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb 6th Army...
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    Rathaus) in Vienna, Austria, the German noblewoman Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz. After receiving Pope John Paul II's permission (a previous pontiff...
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  • Edinburgh 60 Son Sophie Rhys-Jones 15 James Mountbatten-Windsor, Earl of Wessex 16 Grandchild — 16 Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor 20 17 Anne, Princess...
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    Bush Barrow is a site of the early British Bronze Age Wessex culture (c. 2000 BC), at the western end of the Normanton Down Barrows cemetery in Wiltshire...
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    was born in Wessex on 21 October around the year 700. His mother, Wuna of Wessex, was reportedly a sister of Boniface. His father, Richard the Pilgrim...
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    against Gender-Based Violence campaign. She was joined by Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Queen Rania of Jordan, Queen Mathilde of Belgium, Crown Princess Mary of...
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  • Engineers from 1993 until it closed in 2015. Wessex Barracks, named after the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, having served as a cavalry and tank regiment...
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    2019. Retrieved 26 April 2022. Gerloff, Sabine (2010). "Von Troja an die Saale, von Wessex nach Mykene – Chronologie, Fernverbindungen und Zinnrouten...
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    Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (category Peers created by Richard II)
    king's power. Richard II quickly regained control and eventually, in 1397, managed to dispose of the Lords Appellant. By 1396, Thomas and Richard were again...
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  • Charles III of France. She was born in Goslar, Hanover to Dietrich Theodorich von Ringelheim, Duke of Saxony and his wife Gisela of Lotharingia. She was the...
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  • George William of Hanover (Georg Wilhelm Ernst August Friedrich Axel Prinz von Hannover; 25 March 1915 – 8 January 2006) was the second-eldest son of Ernest...
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    Foss Richard Kwietniowski Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill Man from Maybury Hill Anthony Byrne Short film Dogville Narrator Lars Von Trier...
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