After Charlotte, the expected heiress to the throne, died in childbirth, the race was on among George IV's siblings to have a legitimate child to be the next heir. 2. Prince Frederick, Duke of ...

she did, indeed, marry King George on the same day she arrived in England. On August 17, 1761, Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and her brother, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg ...

1st Duke of Wellington, was a British soldier and statesman who lived between the years of 1769 and 1852. He lived during the ...

Louis XIII of France defeated Philip IV of Spain in a match, perhaps because Cardinal Richelieu was the referee. Benvenuto Cellini also took a whack at the game, as did the Duke of Wellington.

The Duke of ... satirists delighted in Wellington's reputation. Affairs at Westminster were no less fraught. Demand for reform refused to quieten. In 1828, George IV asked Wellington to become ...

He is the son of the late George, Duke of Clarence ... the paranoid Duke of Clarence, who is the brother of King Edward IV and the brother of King Richard III. And Richard III is the one on ...