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On This Day In Royal History . 11 April 1689 . . 👑 William & Mary were crowned joint monarchs . Background; . ◾ In 1688 William, Prince of Orange & Mary were invited by the parliamentary opposition to Mary’s father James II to take the crown on England & were assured of English support. . ▪️ William landed at Torbay on 5 November 1688, in 463 ships unopposed by the Royal Navy, & with an army of 14,000 troops which gathering local support grew to over 20,000 & advanced on London in what became known as ‘The Glorious Revolution’. . ▪️ James fled to France, & in February 1689 William & Mary were crowned King William III & Queen Mary II. . The coronation; . ◼ King William III & Queen Mary II were crowned as joint monarchs at Westminster Abbey on 11 April 1689, the first time this had happened in England. William used the ancient Coronation Chair during the ceremony & another chair was specially made for Mary to sit in. . ◼ The coronation service was performed by the Bishop of London, Henry Compton. Normally, the Archbishop of Canterbury performs coronations, but the incumbent Archbishop, William Sancroft, although an Anglican, refused to recognise the validity of James II’s removal. . ▪ Neither William nor Mary enjoyed the ceremony; she thought it “all vanity” & William called it “Popish”. . ◼ On the same day, the Convention of the Estates of Scotland which was much more divided than the English Parliament finally declared that James was no longer King of Scotland, that “no Papist can be King or Queen of this Realm”, that William & Mary would be joint sovereigns, & that William would exercise sole & full power. . ◼ After their coronation, William & Mary moved into Hampton Court Palace . ▪ On 11 May, William & Mary formally accepted the Scottish crown. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1689 #Coronation #WestminsterAbbey #WilliamIII #KingWilliamIII #kingbilly #QueenMaryII #MaryII #HouseofStuart #HouseofOrange #Royalty #Monarchy #History #BritishMonarchy #d11apr #RoyalHistory #gloriousrevolution #HistoryFacts #princeoforange #Stuarts #Heritage #KingofEngland #OnThisDay #QueenofEngland #GreatBritain (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-2ke8ijh3f/?igshid=1w6kdwvcxdehm

On This Day In Royal History . 8 March 1702 . King William III died . . ◼ William died of pneumonia at Kensington Palace, due to a complication from a broken collarbone following a fall from his horse, Sorrel. The horse had been confiscated from Sir John Fenwick, one of the Jacobites who had conspired against William. Because his horse had stumbled into a mole’s burrow, many Jacobites toasted “the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat”. William was buried in Westminster Abbey alongside his wife. His sister-in-law, Anne, became queen regnant of England, Scotland & Ireland. . William’s death brought an end to the Dutch House of Orange. . . 👑 William III also widely known as William of Orange, was sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland & Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672 & King of England, Ireland & Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702. It is a coincidence that his regnal number (III) was the same for both Orange & England. As King of Scotland, he is known as William II. He is sometimes informally known in Northern Ireland & Scotland as “King Billy” . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #TheYear1702 #D8Mar #KingWilliamIII #WilliamIII #WilliamIIIofEngland #WilliamofOrange #KingBilly #HouseofOrange #History #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #kensingtonpalace #Royals #Royalty #Orange #DutchRoyals #KingWilliam #Thisday #London #RoyalLondon #Royalhistory #onthisday #otd #kingwilliam #Kingofengland (at Kensington Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9fKDjMHXsT/?igshid=1jq7ta8moo1fd

On This Day In History . 4 November 1650 . King William III was born . 👑 The future King William III of England, 'William Henry of Orange' was born in The Hague in the Dutch Republic on his mother's 19th birthday. . ◼ He was the only child of stadtholder William II, Prince of Orange, and Mary, Princess Royal. Mary was the eldest daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland, and sister of King Charles II and King James II. . ◼ Eight days before William was born, his father died of smallpox; thus William was the Sovereign Prince of Orange from the moment of his birth. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1650 #WilliamIII #KingWilliamIII #WilliamIIIofEngland #PrinceofOrange #HouseofOrange #Monarch #History #RoyaltyinArt #Art #Portrait #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #D4Nov (at The Hague, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpwfzJCF1X8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1crfejs0ga9vv

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Visitors to #Mayfair #StJames's- grab a hamper from @fortnums & take it to St James's Square (open Monday-Friday 9am-4pm) & quaff champagne in the shadow of #London Library one of the world's largest independent libraries started in 1841. My daughter escaped there during the holidays to study for her #Oxford collections & exams. Note the blue plaque to the magnificent Mayfair Eccentric #CountessAdaLovelace #LordByron daughter whom he christened Princess of the Parallelogram - for her work in creating the world's first computer. Ignore the statue to #KingWilliamIII who was so unpopular in London he couldn't enter london such was the hatred for him. He was married KingJamesII's daughter Mary & despite popular uprising Parliament exhaled our rightful king when he attempted to pass a bill which would grant freedom of religion to all. KingWilliamIII banned alcohol & closed theatres & tried to enforce his Puritan views on Britain. Fortunately a #velvet-coated gentleman saw him off in 1702 & #QueenAnne took the thrown reinstating theatres fine clothes fine food & drink (at Fortnum & Mason)

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