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3 days ago · Outside of her work, Ada married William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace, in 1835, and they had three children. While balancing her worklife with family life didn’t always come easy, Ada enjoyed and worked hard at being a wife and mother.
4 days ago · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole.
The history of this title, before it was settled upon the King's eldest son, justifies Dr. Borlase's observation. William the Conqueror gave it to his relation, Robert Earl of Morteyne, commonly called Moreton, by whose son William, it was forfeited in the reign of Henry I.
5 days ago · Battle of the Boyne, (July 1, 1690), in British history, a major conflict fought along the Boyne River in Ireland between King William III (William of Orange) and the exiled king James II.
5 days ago · Prince William and Kate Middleton aren't known as the Prince and Princess of Wales in Scotland. Find out the titles they go by instead as William steps out for Royal Week in the country.
3 days ago · What I most fear as regards her is, that when the King is asked by Parliament to restore her to her rights, he will refuse his consent unless the Princess first swears to the statutes invalidating the first marriage and the Pope's authority.
6 days ago · Long bows are at the ready. As the rabbit hole of the royal occasion deepens and temporal matters begin to fade, the organ builds, trumpets flare and the choir cranks up through the gears until the...
