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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

Glad To See My Old Friend Was There Too! #london #windsor #stuart #oranjenassau #williamiii #art #williamites #jacobites #romanov #friends #bff https://www.instagram.com/p/BqNpEHDF4FY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1pbre4dw1eh6c

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 ROYAL HISTORY . 5 March 1695 . The funeral of Queen Mary II . . ◼ In late 1694, Mary had contracted smallpox. She sent away anyone who had not previously had the disease, to prevent the spread of infection. Her sister Anne (later Queen Anne), who was pregnant, sent Mary a letter saying she would run any risk to see her sister again, but the offer was declined by Mary’s groom of the stole, the Countess of Derby. . ◾ Mary died at Kensington Palace shortly after midnight on the morning of 28 December 1694 aged 32. . ◼ King William III, who had grown increasingly to rely on Mary, was devastated by her death, “from being the happiest” he was “now going to be the miserablest creature on earth”. She was widely mourned in Britain. . ◼ During a cold winter, in which the Thames froze, her embalmed body lay in state in Banqueting House, Whitehall until her burial in March the following year. . ◼ On 5 March, Mary II was buried at Westminster Abbey. . ◼ Her funeral service was the first of any royal attended by all the members of both Houses of Parliament. . ◼ For the ceremony, composer Henry Purcell wrote Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. . . . #ONTHISDAYINHISTORY #TheYear1695 #thisdayinhistory #MaryII #QueenMaryII #d5mar #Mary II #WestminsterAbbey #HenryPurcell #History #QueenofEngland #Stuarts #HouseofStuart #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #WilliamandMary #WilliamIII #Whitehall #RoyalHistory #HistoryFacts #Otd #OnThisDay #Royalhistory (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9XfAl2JPeR/?igshid=1scgj05bvz3wg

king of the castle #williamIII at #carrickferguscastle #belfast #tourguidebarbie #visitbfelfast #shelovesadventure (at Carrickfergus Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/BquEmyxAb_y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1897pdlyrfs69

On This Day In History 4 November 1650 . King William III was born . About William; . . 👑 William III 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. 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 informally & affectionately known by sections of the population in Northern Ireland & Scotland as "King Billy". . ◼ William inherited the principality of Orange from his father, William II, who died a week before William's birth. His mother Mary, Princess Royal, was the daughter of King Charles I of England. In 1677, he married his mother's niece & his first cousin, Mary, the daughter of his maternal uncle James, Duke of York. . ◼ A Protestant, William participated in several wars against the powerful Catholic king of France, Louis XIV, in coalition with Protestant & Catholic powers in Europe. Many Protestants heralded him as a champion of their faith. In 1685, his Catholic father-in-law, James, became king of England, Ireland & Scotland. James's reign was unpopular with the Protestant majority in Britain. . ◼ William was invited to invade England by a group of influential political & religious leaders in what became known as the "Glorious Revolution", on 5 November 1688, William landed at the southern English port of Brixham. James was deposed & William & Mary became joint sovereigns in his place. They reigned together until her death on 28 December 1694 after which William ruled as sole monarch. . ◼ He died on 8 March 1702, of pneumonia, a complication from a broken collarbone following a fall from his horse, Sorrel . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #ThisDayInHistory #D4Nov #theyear1650 #WilliamIII #WilliamofOrange #KingWilliamIII #WilliamIIIofEngland #WilliamandMary #History #HouseofOrange #GloriousRevolution #Historyfacts #Royalty #Monarchy #kingbilly #Britishmonarchy #Thebritishmonarchy Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 (at The Hague, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpwgxorl5_R/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wikxc5tfylts

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

Je ne vais plus pleurer  Je ne vais plus parler  Je me cacherai là À te regarder danser et sourire et  À t'écouter chanter et puis rire #london #mooddujour #marystuart #williamiii #stuart #oranjenassau #art #vandijk #details #17thcentury #baroque #rijksmuseum #history #fashion #menswear #lyrics #loveislove #jacquesbrel #love #prettyinpink https://www.instagram.com/p/BogevTfnyn6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=160zlwn3gyn1x