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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Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward
Queen Elizabeth II's third son. Born Buckingham Palace. Married Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999.
King George VI
Became king when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated. Like his father George V, he was born a second son and rather unexpectedly ascended to the throne. Like his grandfather, Edward VII, he was bor...
King George IV
Regent: 1811 - 1820. Reigned: 1820 - 1830. After secretly marrying Mrs Fitzherbert, he then officially married Princess Caroline of Brunswick. Built the Royal Pavilion at Brighton. A statue of him ...
St Elizabeth of Hungary
Princess and saint. Born either in the castle of Sárospatak, or in Pozsony, both in the Kingdom of Hungary. She was married at the age of fourteen to Louis IV, the Landgrave of Thuringia, and wid...
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Mary E. Nightingale
Associated with the Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road, 1883. Because her first name is given rather than just an initial it's possible that Mary was a child in 1883, in which case perhaps she was a pup...
London County Council
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Turk's Head Charity
From the Picture source website: "The Turk’s Head was bought from the Council and renovated by our charity in 1992. Now it provides a café and affordable workspace and the rental income pays our ch...
Croydon airport
Croydon was London's first international airport. The terminal building, 1928 - 1959, was one of the first purpose-built terminal buildings in the world. The air traffic control tower is the first ...
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