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Dec 30, 2016 · In multiple instances he calls Queen Victoria "the queen of your honorable nation" and her predecessors "the kings of your honorable nation". Likewise with the Emperor they write formally and give their ruler the appropriate titles and references "his highness" or "his majesty" all throughout their correspondence. Both letters were written in 1839 just after Lin had become Commissioner of ...
Jul 1, 2013 · Queen Victoria you could say was really the first monarch to reign and not Rule. World War 1 saw the the power of the monarchy became even more limited as the King handed over more power to parliament at the end if the War, That you could say what led to the modern Constitutional Monarchy.
Dec 23, 2014 · Queen V was horny but also was a very devout Christian. I think she would have had to marry someone and have many children. So the question only makes sense if she died young and unmarried, possibly murdered by an agent of the Duke of Cumberland. The Prussian takeover of Hanovor was way too much later for Queen V to be celibate that long. By the way, the loss of Hanover shouldn't have changed ...
May 17, 2013. #2. Royalty had to marry protestant royalty. The protestant thing came in with all the trouble with Charles I, James II, and the Jacobites.There were tons of protestant German states with princes and princesses to marry. Princess Diana was a departure in the she was English aristocracy.
Dec 31, 2014 · The 100 Most Significant Figures in History 1 Jesus 2 Napoleon 3 Muhammad 4 William Shakespeare 5 Abraham Lincoln 6 George Washington 7 Adolf Hitler 8 Aristotle 9 Alexander the Great 10 Thomas Jefferson 11 Henry VIII of England 12 Charles Darwin 13 Elizabeth I of England 14 Karl Marx 15 Julius Caesar 16 Queen Victoria 17 Martin Luther 18 Joseph Stalin 19 Albert Einstein 20 Christopher Columbus ...
Mar 11, 2011 · Queen Elizabeth I of England - for managing to rule for 44 years and managing to avoid matrimony all that time, always keeping everyone guessing. Madame Tussaud - for managing to survive the French Revolution, despite her royalist connections, and for keeping her cool even when she had to make death masks from the severed heads of people she had known.
Jul 27, 2011 · Lawnmowerman. Joined Mar 2010. 9,845 Posts | 30+. Discussion Starter. Jul 27, 2011. #1. All Victoria Crosses are manufactured from cannons captured during the seige of Stevaspool during the Crimean war. Their only remains 10kg of this metal left, enough for roughly another 85 VC's.
Apr 19, 2009 · Love would be too strong a term, but I do have the greatest of respect for the following historical figures: 20th Century (alive in 2010): Nelson Mandela. 20th Century (deceased as of 2010): Winston Churchill MP. 2nd Millennium: Toss up between Good Queen Bess (Elizabeth I) and Queen Victoria.
Jan 5, 2013 · Even Queen Victoria wanted to become empress and did so by calling herself empress of India. So it is no surprise that in the 19th century, the Russian Tsar was accepted as an emperor, as evidenced from terms like League of the Three Emperors for a loose alliance between Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia in 1881.
May 2, 2013 · The Seven Weeks' War broke out on June 7th, 1866, between Prussia and Austria; it was the result of a quarrel over which power would claim the former Danish duches of Holstein and Schleswig. The result was one of the most decisive victories in pre-20th Century European warfare - the Prussians inflicted 40,000 casualties while taking around ...
