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4 days ago · Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; [n 1] 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.
3 days ago · The Battenberg cake, which was allegedly invented for Queen Victoria’s granddaughter Princess Victoria’s marriage to Prince Louis of Battenberg in 1884, was first written down in 1898 France ...
3 days ago · It was one of the principal quarters of Prince Maurice's army, whilst besieging Plymouth, from October to December or January, 1643. The King had a garrison here, which was taken by the Earl of Essex in the month of July, 1644 : it had then 8 pieces of ordnance.
3 days ago · In May Hertford and Prince Maurice led a cavalry expedition from Oxford and captured Salisbury. They then moved westwards and effected their junction with Hopton at Chard, and it was the combined force which Waller met and worsted at Lansdown on 5 July.
4 days ago · Prince Maurice was quartered with his army at Heavitree in the month of July, 1644. In March, 1646, it was the quarters of part of Fairfax's army, when besieging Exeter.
2 days ago · Claiming that this capture violated imperial law, Charles opened the conflict in 1546, in which he was joined by Maurice, duke of Saxony, an ambitious Lutheran prince to whom Charles had secretly promised the Saxon electorship.
4 hours ago · Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Signature. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; [1] 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the prince consort of the United Kingdom. Prince Albert was the husband of Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 ...
