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5 days ago · Maud’s grandson, the current King Harald V of Norway and his wife Sonja, ascended the throne in 1991. As firm fans of Maud’s tiara, they sent it to London for refurbishing by renowned British jewellers Garrard in 1995, only for it to be stolen during a planned heist involving three armed robbers.
2 days ago · Originally built among green fields, with a windmill close at hand, it now stands in the midst of a teeming population. The edifice, which is in the Grecian style of architecture, was built from the designs of Mr. Bedford.
2 days ago · The other moiety was settled in 1385 on the marriage of Henry and Maud Green and was acquired in 1397 by John Cassey of Wightfield in Deerhurst parish. In 1393 he had acquired a reversionary right to a quarter of the manor previously owned by Richard Burley and retained by Richard's widow Beatrice, wife of Hugh Waterton.
4 days ago · Opinion. Anne of Green Gables looms over P.E.I., but it’s Lucy Maud Montgomery who intrigues. With a new coin honouring Montgomery and a new audio version of her famous book, Anne’s hold over...
2 days ago · In 2012, Zimbabwean Maud Chifamba made headlines when she enrolled at university to study accounting at the age of 14. She was Africa’s youngest undergraduate student at that time. Chifamba’s journey is an incredible story of an orphaned girl who has defied all the odds to achieve her lifelong goal of becoming a Chartered Accountant.
3 days ago · Stephen (1092 or 1096 – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154. He was Count of Boulogne jure uxoris from 1125 until 1147 and Duke of Normandy from 1135 until 1144.
3 days ago · The 150th birth anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canada native and creator of the popular "Anne of Green Gables" children's book, is honored with a circulating dollar and Proof silver $20 coin.
