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On This Day In History 25 December 1936 ◼ Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy was born. ◼ Princess Alexandra was born on 25 December 1936 at 3 Belgrave Square, London. ◼ Her parents were Prince George, Duke of Kent (the fourth son of King George V & Queen Mary) & Princess Marina of Greece & Denmark, a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece & Denmark & Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. ◼ She was named after her paternal great-grandmother, Queen Alexandra; her grandmother, Princess Nicholas of Greece & Denmark; & both of her maternal aunts, Countess Karl Theodor of Törring-Jettenbach & Princess Paul of Yugoslavia. She received the name Christabel because she was born on Christmas Day, like her aunt by marriage, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. ➡ Her birth was the last to have the tradition of having the Home Secretary present to verify the birth of potential heirs to the throne. Secretary Sir John Simon was present & was the last to do this. ◼ As a male-line granddaughter of the British monarch, she was styled as a British princess with the prefix Her Royal Highness. ◼ At the time of her birth, she was sixth in the line of succession to the British throne, behind her cousins Elizabeth & Princess Margaret, her uncle the Duke of Gloucester, her father the Duke of Kent, & her elder brother Prince Edward. She was born two weeks after the abdication of her uncle King Edward VIII. #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1936 #PrincessAlexandra #LadyOgilvy #TheHonourableLadyOgilvy #HouseofWindsor #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #D25Dec #Royalhistory #onthisday #instahistory #instaroyals #History #Belgravesquare #London (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6gvt32Ab3y/?igshid=x7adjyxkzyfj

On This Day In History 25 December 1066 William, Duke of Normandy was crowned King of England About William; ◼ William I (born.c. 1028 – died.9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror & sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. ◼ William was the descendant of Viking raiders, he had been Duke of Normandy since 1035. After a long struggle to establish his power, by 1060 his hold on Normandy was secure, & he launched the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The rest of his life was marked by struggles to consolidate his hold over England & his continental lands & by difficulties with his eldest son. ◼ Afterwards he made arrangements for the governance of England in early 1067 before returning to Normandy. Several unsuccessful rebellions followed, but by 1075 William’s hold on England was mostly secure, allowing him to spend the majority of the rest of his reign on the continent. ◼ William’s final years were marked by difficulties in his continental domains, troubles with his eldest son, & threatened invasions of England by the Danes. ◼ In 1086 William ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey listing all the landholders in England along with their holdings. ◼ William died in September 1087 while leading a campaign in northern France, & was buried in Caen. His reign in England was marked by the construction of castles, the settling of a new Norman nobility on the land, & change in the composition of the English clergy. ◼ He did not try to integrate his various domains into one empire, but instead continued to administer each part separately. William’s lands were divided after his death: Normandy went to his eldest son, Robert, & his second surviving son, William, received England. #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1066 #WilliamI #WilliamIofEngland #WilliamtheConqueror #WilliamtheBastard #EnglishMonarchy #History #Royalty #Coronation #WestminsterAbbey #BritishMonarchy #D25Dec #Royalhistory #instaroyals #instahistory #Norman #Normans #Battleofhastings #onthisday #Dukeofnormandy #Normandy #Normanconquest (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6gsDjdAwYo/?igshid=yxx1lfohcwvf

On This Day In History . 25 December 1901 . Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester was born . ◼ Lady Alice was born, in Montagu House, Whitehall, London, on Christmas Day 1901 as the third daughter of John Montagu Douglas Scott, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and the former Lady Margaret Bridgeman, daughter of George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford. She was therefore a descendant, in an unbroken male (though illegitimate) line, of King Charles II. . About Alice; . ◼ Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, born Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; was the wife & then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V & Mary of Teck. . ◼ The daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, Scotland’s largest landowner, her brothers Walter & William and her nephew John were all Conservative MP's. She was sister-in-law to Edward VIII & George VI & aunt to Elizabeth II. . ◼ She was the mother of Prince William of Gloucester, who died at age 30, & Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Her first cousin, Marian Montagu Douglas Scott, was the paternal grandmother of Sarah, Duchess of York, wife of Alice’s great-nephew, Prince Andrew, Duke of York. . ◼ Princess Alice's niece, Princess Alexandra, shares the name Christabel in honour of their shared birth date, Christmas Day. . ◼ Princess Alice died on 29 October 2004 in her sleep at Kensington Palace at age 102. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #PrincessAlice #D25Dec #DuchessofGloucester #HouseofWindsor #RoyalFamily #Royalty #britishmonarchy #London #Princess #ChristmasDay #Christmas #Thebritishmonarchy (at Whitehall, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br0mf4jlP62/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ku3zs6q9k6gs

On This Day In History 25 December 1901 Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester was born ◼ Lady Alice was born, in Montagu House, Whitehall, London, on Christmas Day 1901 as the third daughter of John Montagu Douglas Scott, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and the former Lady Margaret Bridgeman, daughter of George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford. She was therefore a descendant, in an unbroken male (though illegitimate) line, of King Charles II. About Alice; ◼ Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, born Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; was the wife & then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V & Mary of Teck. ◼ The daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, Scotland’s largest landowner, her brothers Walter & William and her nephew John were all Conservative MP’s. She was sister-in-law to Edward VIII & George VI & aunt to Elizabeth II. ◼ She was the mother of Prince William of Gloucester, who died at age 30, & Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Her first cousin, Marian Montagu Douglas Scott, was the paternal grandmother of Sarah, Duchess of York, wife of Alice’s great-nephew, Prince Andrew, Duke of York. ◼ Princess Alice’s niece, Princess Alexandra, shares the name Christabel in honour of their shared birth date, Christmas Day. ◼ Princess Alice died on 29 October 2004 in her sleep at Kensington Palace at age 102. . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #PrincessAlice #D25Dec #DuchessofGloucester #HouseofWindsor #RoyalFamily #Royalty #BritishMonarchy #Royalhistory #Onthisday #montaguhouse #christmasday #Duchess #instaroyals #Whitehall #Instahistory #CharlesII #Vintagephoto #vintagephotography (at Montagu House) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6guKP8g-VH/?igshid=1mjpeho42vfl0