On This Day In Royal History . 3 September 1660 . James, Duke of York (later King James II) married Anne Hyde. . . ◼ In 1660 James had prompted controversy by announcing his engagement to Anne Hyde, the daughter of King Charles II’s’ chief minister, Edward Hyde. . ◼ In 1659, while trying to seduce her, James promised he would marry Anne. Anne became pregnant in 1660, but following the Restoration & James’s return to power, no one at the royal court expected a prince to marry a commoner, no matter what he had pledged beforehand. . ◼ Although nearly everyone, including Anne’s father, urged the two not to marry, the couple married secretly, then went through an official marriage ceremony on 3 September 1660 in London. . ◼ Their first child, Charles, was born less than two months later, but died in infancy, as did five further sons & daughters. Only two daughters survived: Mary (born 30 April 1662) & Anne (born 6 February 1665), both future Queen’s. . ◼ Samuel Pepys wrote that James was fond of his children & his role as a father, & played with them “like an ordinary private father of a child”, a contrast to the distant parenting common to royals at the time. James’s wife was devoted to him & influenced many of his decisions. Even so, he kept a variety of mistresses, including Arabella Churchill & Catherine Sedley, & was reputed to be “the most unguarded ogler of his time.” Anne Hyde died in 1671. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1660 #RoyalWedding #JamesII #KingJamesII #JamesIIofEngland #KingofEngland #DukeofYork #AnneHyde #Royalty #History #RoyaltyinArt #EnglishMonarchy #HouseofStuart #otd #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #Stuarts #BritishMonarchy #D3Sep (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEr2FtRDji4/?igshid=f1x3kgb9gtyj

ON THIS DAY IN ROYAL HISTORY . 28 May 1660 . 👑 King George I of Great Britain was born . . ◼ George was born on 28 May 1660 in Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the eldest son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, & his wife, Sophia of the Palatinate. Sophia was the granddaughter of King James I of England through her mother, Elizabeth of Bohemia. . ◼ George I was the King of Great Britain & Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, & ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698. . ◼ George inherited the titles & lands of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg from his father & uncles. A succession of European wars expanded his German domains during his lifetime, & in 1708 he was ratified as prince-elector of Hanover. . ◼ At the age of 54, after the death of Queen Anne of Great Britain, George ascended the British throne as the first monarch of the House of Hanover. Although over fifty Roman Catholics bore closer blood relationships to Anne, the Act of Settlement 1701 prohibited Catholics from inheriting the British throne; George was Anne’s closest living Protestant relative. In reaction, Jacobites attempted to depose George & replace him with Anne’s Catholic half-brother, James Francis Edward Stuart, but their attempts failed. . ◼ During George’s reign, the powers of the monarchy diminished & Britain began a transition to the modern system of cabinet government led by a prime minister. Towards the end of his reign, actual power was held by Sir Robert Walpole, now recognised as Britain’s first de facto prime minister. George died 11 June 1727 on a trip to his native Hanover, where he was buried. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1660 #GeorgeI #KingGeorgeI #King #KingofGreatBritain #HouseofHanover #Hanoverian #Royalty #Royal #d28may #Theking #RoyalHistory #RoyalFamily #historyfact #HistoryFacts #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #otd #bornonthisday #Bornthisdayinhistory #theking #Hanoverian #Hanover #portraitpainting (at Hanover, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvnFYOj7ju/?igshid=1rm6rkk8xk57g

On This Day In History . 13 September 1660 . Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester died . 👑 Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (b.8 July 1640) was the youngest son of Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France, the third son to survive to adulthood (his eldest brother, Charles, Duke of Cornwall and of Rothesay was born and died the same day). He is also known as Henry of Oatland. He was the fourth Duke of Gloucester. . ◾ Shortly after he was created Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Cambridge by king Charles II, he died suddenly of smallpox, much to his brother's distress. . ◾ Decades later, during the exclusion crisis, Henry was looked back on as a kind of 'lost leader'; as what might have been a legitimate, warlike, Protestant alternative to the equally unpalatable choices of the Dukes of York (later James II) & Monmouth (James Scott). . ◾ He was buried in the south side of the Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, on 21 September 1660. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1660 #HenryDukeofGloucester #DukeofGloucester #Heritage #Royal #Royals #England #English #EnglishHistory #EarlofCambridge #Art #Portrait #RoyalArt #HenryStuart #HouseofStuart #Stuarts #EnglishMonarchy #Royalty #History #BritishMonarchy #D13Sep #RoyalHistory #Westminsterabbey #instahistory (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2XcCbNgK-m/?igshid=ujzs2ob79mzr

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY . 28 May 1660 . 👑 King George I of Great Britain was born . . ◼ George was born on 28 May 1660 in Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the eldest son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, & his wife, Sophia of the Palatinate. Sophia was the granddaughter of King James I of England through her mother, Elizabeth of Bohemia. . ◼ George I was the King of Great Britain & Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, & ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698. . ◼ George inherited the titles & lands of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg from his father & uncles. A succession of European wars expanded his German domains during his lifetime, & in 1708 he was ratified as prince-elector of Hanover. . ◼ At the age of 54, after the death of Queen Anne of Great Britain, George ascended the British throne as the first monarch of the House of Hanover. Although over fifty Roman Catholics bore closer blood relationships to Anne, the Act of Settlement 1701 prohibited Catholics from inheriting the British throne; George was Anne's closest living Protestant relative. In reaction, Jacobites attempted to depose George & replace him with Anne's Catholic half-brother, James Francis Edward Stuart, but their attempts failed. . ◼ During George's reign, the powers of the monarchy diminished & Britain began a transition to the modern system of cabinet government led by a prime minister. Towards the end of his reign, actual power was held by Sir Robert Walpole, now recognised as Britain's first de facto prime minister. George died 11 June 1727 on a trip to his native Hanover, where he was buried. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1660 #GeorgeI #KingGeorgeI #King #KingofGreatBritain #HouseofHanover #Hanoverian #Royalty #Royal #d28may #Theking #RoyalHistory #RoyalFamily #historyfact #HistoryFacts #OnThisDay (at Hanover, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByBhnY6AnAN/?igshid=1ah1ylxcfbsx

On This Day In History . 24 December 1660 . Mary, Princess Royal & Princess of Orange died. . ◼ She died of smallpox, at Whitehall Palace, London and was buried in Westminster Abbey. . . About Mary; . ◼ Princess Mary Henrietta was born at St. James's Palace, London, 4 November 1631. . ◼ Charles I designated her Princess Royal in 1642, thus establishing the tradition that the eldest daughter of the British Sovereign might bear this title. . ◼ The title came into being when Queen Henrietta Maria, the daughter of King Henry IV of France wished to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the French king was styled (Madame Royale). Until that time, the eldest daughters of English & Scottish kings were variously titled Lady or Princess (The younger daughters of British Sovereigns were not consistently titled princesses of Great Britain & styled Royal Highness until the ascension of George I in 1714). . ◼ Mary, Princess Royal was Princess of Orange & Countess of Nassau as the wife of William II, Prince of Orange. William II died in 1650, also of smallpox. Their only child, William succeeded her husband as Prince of Orange-Nassau & later reigned as King of England, Ireland & Scotland. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #d24dec #TheYear1660 #MaryPrincessRoyal #MaryPrincessofOrange #HouseofStuart #Royalty #History #PrincessMary #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy (at Whitehall, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/BryhKl0l3L1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l8xp25lk7okt