HMS Queen Elizabeth was the lead ship of her class of five dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s, and was often used as...
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Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, died on 8 September 2022 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, at the age of 96...
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The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in London...
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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from...
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at 15:15 GMT, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (formerly Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), widow to King George VI and mother to Queen Elizabeth II, died at the...
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The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten (later Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) took place on Thursday 20 November...
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year 2012 marked the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II being the 60th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II on 6 February 1952. The only diamond...
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The coronation of George VI and his wife, Elizabeth, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, Emperor and...
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HMS Sheffield was a Type 42 guided missile destroyer and the second Royal Navy ship to be named after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. Commissioned...
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1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. She remained in service until December 1968 when she was put on...
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original name. The Queen Elizabeth-class super-dreadnoughts, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Warspite, HMS Valiant, HMS Barham, and HMS Malaya, were a line...
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2022, Charles became king upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, with Camilla as queen consort. Charles and Camilla's coronation took place at...
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waited to file past the coffin of Elizabeth II while she lay in state at Westminster Hall in London, England. The Queen had died on 8 September, and had...
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HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed in 1915, she was often used as...
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Mary of Teck (redirect from Queen Victoria Mary The Queen Mother)
ISBN 0-00-215741-1 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Queen Mary of the United Kingdom. Wikiquote has quotations related to Mary of Teck. Queen Mary...
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The image of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms and Head of the Commonwealth from 1952 to 2022, was generally favourable...
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Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. She was scrapped at Charlestown on 14 December 1955. HMS Tradewind, Uboat.net Souvenir Programme...
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Death and funeral of Mary of Teck (redirect from Death and funeral of Queen Mary of the United Kingdom)
birthday and ten weeks before the coronation of her granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. In her final year, Mary was profoundly affected by the death of...
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to HMS Queen Elizabeth, a fast battleship which had spent much of the war in the Mediterranean. Unlike the battlecruisers in Rosyth, Queen Elizabeth was...
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1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. By the late 1950s she was again modernised at Chatham Dockyard...
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reigning monarch, which throughout the coin's mintage has only been Queen Elizabeth II. Following a 1959 committee, it was agreed in 1963 that New Zealand...
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commander of HMS Queen Elizabeth, earning an OBE in 2016. Cdr Andrew S Brown earned a MBE prior to his appointment to Kent as commander of HMS Chiddingfold...
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decommissioned on 28 August 2014 even though she would not be replaced until HMS Queen Elizabeth's commissioning in 2017. Despite the UK Ministry of Defence's announcement...
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2012, the southern part of the territory was named Queen Elizabeth Land in honour of Queen Elizabeth II. The United Kingdom has had a continuous presence...
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first command, the T-class submarine HMS Tireless. Promoted to lieutenant-commander in May 1962, he then commanded HMS Grampus before becoming the second...
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November 1918, to Admiral Sir David Beatty on board his flagship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, in the Firth of Forth. Under the terms of the Armistice, the German...
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daughter, Elizabeth II. Albert was born at York Cottage, on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria...
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heraldic badge of the Royal Navy's current flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth uses a Tudor rose with colours divided vertically (per pale), inheriting...
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HMCS Ontario (C53) (redirect from HMS Minotaur (53))
built for the Royal Navy as HMS Minotaur (53), but transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion and renamed Ontario. HMS Minotaur was laid down on...
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1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. She was finally scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales on 5 June 1965...
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