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2 days ago · Statue of George V beheaded in Melbourne by vandals. George V (born June 3, 1865, London, England—died January 20, 1936, Sandringham, Norfolk) was the king of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936, the second son of Prince Albert Edward, later King Edward VII.
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Jun 8, 2024 · George V (born May 27, 1819, Berlin—died June 12, 1878, Paris) was the last king of Hanover (1851–66), the only son of Ernest Augustus, king of Hanover and Duke of Cumberland. His youth was passed in England and in Berlin until 1837, when his father became king of Hanover.
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5 days ago · No. VII. [supra, p. 480.] The Death, Funeral Order, and Procession, of His Highness the most Serene and most Illustrious Oliver Cromwell, late Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging.
Jun 19, 2024 · v. t. e. On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 75 after suffering heart failure following years of serious ailments.
2 days ago · After lying in state in the Kremlin, the body of the Tsar was taken to St. Petersburg, where the funeral was held on 19 November. Nicholas and Alix's wedding was originally scheduled for the spring of 1895, but it was moved forward at Nicholas's insistence.
2 days ago · Edward died in 1910 in the midst of a constitutional crisis that was resolved the following year by the Parliament Act 1911, which restricted the power of the unelected House of Lords. Edward was succeeded by his only surviving son, George V . Early life and education. Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1846.
Jun 7, 2024 · This is a sumptuous volume, inspired by a Westminster one-day conference on the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt, and now followed up with a detailed analysis of Henry V’s death, funeral and Abbey commemorations.
