Born Oxford as Sophie Rhys-Jones. Worked in PR. Married Prince Edward in 1999.
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Countess of Wessex, Sophie
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Chiswick war memorial - Burlington Lane
{Main monument:} Chiswick memorial of the Great War 1914 1918 Homes of rest f...
LSE buildings renamed after suffrage campaigners
The renaming, reported by The Tab, was to celebrate 100 years since women gai...
Queen Elizabeth II jubilees
This memorial has provided terrific value. It was first erected for the Silve...
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King Harald of Denmark
First Christian King of Denmark and grandfather of King Canute. 10th century.
Queen Caroline of Anspach
Queen consort of George II. Born Ansbach. She and her husband came to Britain in 1714 when he became heir presumptive to the English throne. Politically aligned with Robert Walpole. She acted a...
90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II was actually born on 21 April 1926, but since 1959 official celebrations have taken place on the second Saturday of June which in 2016 was the 11th.
King Richard I
Richard the Lionheart. Born Oxford, son of Henry II. King of England 6 July 1189 - death. Also ruled parts of France. More French than English, he spent much of his live in Southern Europe, mainly...
Queen Alexandra
Wife of Edward VII, mother of George V. Born at the Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. As an adult gradually became profoundly deaf. It is said the Queen Victoria learnt the British Sign La...
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Reform League
A group who campaigned for adult male suffrage, at the time limited to adult males who rented propertied land of a certain value. The Reform Act of 1867 (the Second Reform Act) largely gave them w...
Borough Market Bell (1)
SE1, Middle Road, Borough Market
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall carried out the first ringing of the bell.
Alfred J. Baines
Second Lieutenant Alfred Jack Baines was born in 1914 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the son of Alfred and Hestor Baines. He was married to Doris Mabel Baines and they lived at 181 Ilford Lane, Ilford...
Sir Sydney H. Waterlow
Philanthropist. Born in Crown Street, now Sun Street, EC2. Brought up in Mile End. Followed his father and brothers into the stationery and printing business. 1963 founded, and chaired, the philan...
Countrywomen of the soldiers that fought with Wellington
This patriotic committee of women, led by Lady Lavinia Spencer, ordered the Achilles statue unadorned. It was the men that insisted on the covering.
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