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On This Day In Royal History . 26 June 1483 . 👑 Richard III’s reign as King of England begins. . ◼ A clergyman is said to have informed Richard that Edward IV’s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was invalid because of Edward’s earlier union with Eleanor Butler, making Edward V & his siblings illegitimate. . ◼ On 22 June 1483, a sermon was preached outside Old St. Paul’s Cathedral declaring Edward IV’s children bastards & Richard the rightful king. Shortly after, the citizens of London, both nobles & commons, convened & drew up a petition asking Richard to assume the throne. He accepted on 26 June & was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 6 July 1483. . ◼ Richard was born on 2 October 1452 & died 22 August 1485). He was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485, at the age of 32, in the Battle of Bosworth Field. . ◼ He was the last king of the House of York & the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. . ◼ His defeat at Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marked the end of the Middle Ages in England. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1483 #KingofEngland #RichardIII #RichardIIIOfEngland #KingRichardIII #HouseofYork #Yorkist #WaroftheRoses #History #EnglishHistory #EnglishMonarchy #Royalfacts #interestingfacts #Britishmonarchy #d26jun #Royalhistory #kingrichard #Plantagenet #plantagenets #HistoryFacts #Royal #Royals #Historic #Onthisday #theking #Leicestercathedral #Otd #RoyalHistory (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5yKujjdRC/?igshid=1iv7nlvrblu6q

Miscellaneous Royal Facts . The story of the Buckingham Palace garden . . The site where Buckingham Palace now stands was originally a mulberry garden planted by King James I in which to rear silkworms. . In 1608 the King, in an attempt to provide impetus to the British silk industry, issued an edict encouraging the cultivation of mulberry trees and paid £ 935 ‘for the charge of 4 acres of land taken for His Majesty’s use, near to the Palace of Westminster, for the planting of Mulberry trees…’ . Unfortunately James chose to grow the black, not the white mulberry, and silk production never took off in Britain, but one of the original trees still survives, and bears fruit, in the Palace garden. . The design of the modern garden dates from 1825, when George IV began the conversion of the former Buckingham House to a Palace. He appointed William Townsend Aiton, head of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to oversee the remodelling of the grounds and the creation of the lake; many of the trees planted under Aiton’s supervision still form the structure of the garden today. . When her children were young, Queen Victoria would play skittles with them in the garden and take them into the kitchen garden where they were allowed to eat their fill of fruit. Later, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth cleared many of the dense Victorian shrubberies themselves and introduced a wide selection of decorative flowering trees and scented shrubs. . . . #Miscellaneousroyalfacts #RoyalFacts #Facts #buckinghampalace #Gardens #Garden #Palace #Royalty #Monarchy #HouseofWindsor #History #london #England #RoyalFamily #Royal #BritishMonarchy #QueenElizabethII #ElizabethII #HerMajesty #princephillip #dukeofedinburgh #Gardening #London #londonhistory #RoyalHistory #thequeen👑 #thequeen #Flowers #westminster #CityofLondon (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9_nuo5DnKS/?igshid=17teqjor7vmut

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The Earl & Countess of Wessex . Did you know? . 👑 Their private residence is Bagshot Park in Surrey, & their office & official London residence is based at Buckingham Palace. . Not a bad place to have your office is it! 😁 . . . #RoyalFacts #Facts #Instaphoto #PrinceEdward #EarlofWessex #RoyalFamily #sophiecountessofwessex #countessofwessex #royal #royals #monarchy #BagshotPark #BuckinghamPalace #British #Britain London #England #wessex #TheQueen #ElizabethII #influencer #BritishMonarchy #TheBritishMonarchy (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BslYRLPF-uw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=swohpj56tsrs

Royal Facts Day 😊 . A selection of photos with random Facts beginning with; . Sophie, Countess of Wessex . . 👑 Sophie descends from King Henry IV of England. . 👑 Sophie worked in public relations and spent four years at Capital Radio. . 👑 It was during her time working at Capital Radio that Sophie met Prince Edward, the youngest son of the Queen & the Duke of Edinburgh, for the first time in 1987 when he was dating her friend. . 👑 On the day of their marriage, Prince Edward was created a hereditary peer as Earl of Wessex with the subsidiary title of Viscount Severn (derived from the Welsh roots of the Countess's family). . 👑 On 8 November 2003, Sophie prematurely gave birth to her daughter, Louise, resulting from a sudden placental abruption that placed both mother & child at risk, & the Countess had to undergo an emergency caesarean section at Frimley Park Hospital, while the Earl of Wessex rushed back from Mauritius. . 👑 The Countess returned to Frimley Park Hospital on 17 December 2007, to give birth, again by caesarean section, to her son, James, Viscount Severn. . 👑 The Countess of Wessex's first overseas tour after her marriage was to the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island in 2000. . 👑 On 26 March 2015, the Countess attended the reburial of Richard III of England in Leicester Cathedral. . . 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧If you would like a photo of any royal family member past or present with some random facts then make your suggestions in the comments section here & I will see what I can do. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 . . . #SophieCountessofWessex #Countess #CountessofWessex #Wessex #PrinceEdward #EarlofWessex #HRH #HouseofWindsor #History #Heritage #RoyalFacts #Information #picoftheday #photooftheday #Beautiful #Classy #CapitalRadio #Royal #Royals #Royalfamily #Monarchy #British #BritishMonarchy #Thebritishmonarchy (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsVaZZgl3OS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=a9h5yhv8yqui

Miscellaneous Royal Facts . . Inside the Royal Mews . . ◼ Queen Victoria described it as ‘a small village which belongs to Buckingham Palace’ and it was here at the Royal Mews, which during her reign was home to some 200 horses, that her children learned to ride and where she established a school for the children of Royal Mews workers. . ▪ The Mews, which date back to the reign of Richard II when they were based on the site of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, were originally used to house the monarch’s falcons, but from the 16th century became stabling for horses. . ▪ The present Royal Family have made good use of them, and as children Prince Charles and Princess Anne were taken there by the Queen to feed sugar lumps to the horses. . ▪ From 1969 the Mews was home to Burmese, a gift to Elizabeth II from the Canadian Mounted Police and her regular mount for the Trooping of the Colour until 1986. . ▪ Several weeks ahead of the ceremony the Queen would practise riding side-saddle at the Mews. Although she now attends the ceremony in an open carriage, she still knows the name of every horse in the Mews. . . . #Miscellaneousroyalfacts #RoyalFacts #Facts #Royal #Mews #Horses #RoyalMews #TheRoyalMews #RoyalFamily #Royalty #HouseofWindsor #History #Heritage #Monarchy #ElizabethII #QueenElizabethII #HerMajesty #Britishmonarchy #London #BuckinghamPalace (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWJAPWl7hM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=w6yy5rzah0l0

Happy 37th Birthday To The Duchess Of Cambridge . ◼ Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading on 9 January 1982 . 37 Facts, . 21-26 . ◼ The Duchess is descended from a family of solicitors and landed gentry on her father's side and butchers, plasterers, road sweepers and domestic servants on her mother's.  . ◼ During her tour of California and Canada during the summer of 2011 the royal wore more than 25 outfits.  . ◼ Whenever the royal is photographed wearing high street fashion the garment quickly sells out.  . ◼ The duchess is an official ambassadors for Team GB and Paralympic GB.  . ◼ She is the eldest of three children born to Michael Middleton (b. 1949),and his wife, Carole (née Goldsmith; b. 1955) ◼ Prince William and Catherine Middleton became engaged in October 2010, in Kenya, during a 10-day trip to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy to celebrate his passing the RAF helicopter search and rescue course . . . #CatherineDuchessofCambridge #DuchessofCambridge #TheDuchessofCambridge #CountessofStrathearn #BaronessCarrickfergus #HouseofWindsor #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #TheBritishMonarchy #London #PrinceWilliam #Duchess #KateMiddleton #Kensingtonpalace #BritishRoyals #royalfacts #PrinceGeorge #PrincessCharlotte (at Kensington Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsbIG4QFx_Q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xggincdoffm1