Princess Augusta was born in Gotha on 30 November 1719, she was the daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1676-1732) and Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1676-1740). As a shy ...
Edward, 17th Earl of Warwick was the last male member of the House of Plantagenet. He was the son of George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV and Richard IIII and of Isabel Neville, elder ...
Lionel Duke of Clarence, Earl of Ulster and Baron of Connaught, was born on 29 November 1338 at Antwerp in Flanders, the second surviving son of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainaut, daughter of ...
Her father, who was the cousin of the Duke of Buckingham, supported the Royalist cause during the Civil War and died from a wound acquired at the Battle of Newbury, leaving his widow and daughter in ...
Caroline of Ansbach, destined to become the Queen Consort of George II, was born on 1st March 1683 in the small German state of Ansbach, she was the daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg ...
Mary Adelaide was the daughter of Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, the youngest surviving son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, she was therefore a first cousin of Queen ...
Malcolm III, surnamed 'Canmore'. which translates from Gaelic as ' big head.' was born in 1031, he was the eldest son of the ill-fated King Duncan. When his father was killed in battle at Bothganowan ...
Prince Ernest Augustus was born at Buckingham House, which is now part of Buckingham Palace, on 5 June 1771, he was the fifth son of King George III and his queen, Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz ...
The young prince was placed in the care of John Erskine, Earl of Mar, as his father was concerned that his wife Anne of Denmark's leanings toward Catholicism might affect her son, which understandably ...
Margaret of Denmark was born on 23 June 1456, the daughter of Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and Dorothea of Brandenburg, herself the daughter of John, Margrave of ...
Isabella of Valois the second wife of Richard II was born in Paris on 9 November 1389 and was the daughter of King Charles VI of France and his wife Isabeau of Bavaria. Isabella was born at a time of ...
The remarkable life of Nell Gwynne, most famous of the many mistresses of 'the Merry Monarch', Charles II, a classic rags to riches story, began on 2 February 1650. Nell was was the daughter of Thomas ...