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- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
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11: ... was styled '''Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales'''. She was almost always called '''Princess Dia...
13: ...y]], [[mental cruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], spawning b...
15: ...be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale.
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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...tter of Britain]]." There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually exis...
5: ...Saxon]]s. His power base was probably in either [[Wales]], [[Cornwall]], or the west of what would become...
7: ..." he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
9: ...ay have been remembered for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the historical career o...
11: ...Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god [[Lir]] into... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ... machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufacture of more prod...
3: ... [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the [[internal combust...
5: ... of the world. The impact of this change on [[society]] was enormous and is often compared to the [[Ne...
10: ...ernational [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capi...
12: ...ritain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often impo... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: '''Steel''' is a [[metal]] [[alloy]] whose major component is [[iron]], ...
5: ... (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ... Both temperatures could be reached with ancient methods that have been in use for at least 6000 years...
10: ...pg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]]
11: ...cementite-ferrite mixture. Cementite is a stochiometric phase with the chemical formula of Fe<sub>3</s... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...(on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Can...
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
11: ...ent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B... - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
11: ...ys before it fell. The future governor [[Quintus Petillius Cerialis]], then commanding the [[Legio IX ...
13: ... slaughtering anyone who had not evacuated with Suetonius. [[Verulamium]] ([[St Albans]]) was next to ...
15: ...aining won the day at the [[battle of Watling Street]]. The Britons attempted to flee, but were impede...
17: ...ss (London)|Kings Cross]] in London (a nearby street is named Battle Bridge Road), and that Boudicca h...
19: ...removed as governor, to be replaced by [[Publius Petronius Turpilianus]]. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]].
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed ...
13: ...false assertions that she was created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his ...
15: ...under the direction of her governess, the [[Margaret Pole%2C Countess of Salisbury|Countess of Salisbu...
17: ...ent to [[Wales]] to preside over the [[Council of Wales and the Marches]]. It was then suggested that th... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...8]], [[1542]] – [[February 8]], [[1587]]), better known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the r...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, ...
15: ...ut [[Duke of Albany]], a royal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died bef...
24: ...rd to the altar and put her gently in the throne set up there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep h...
28: ...child's head, where it rested on a circlet of velvet. The Cardinal steadied the crown and Lord Livings... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...oria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) (...
12: ... only a daughter, [[Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales]]. When she then died in [[1817]], the remaining ...
14: ...k later. Princess Victoria's uncle, the Prince of Wales, inherited the Crown, becoming King George IV. Th...
18: Princess Victoria met her future husband, [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobur...
20: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[... - Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
7: == Princess of Wales ==
9: ...ated -- but they were either married or formally betrothed (the legal equivalent of marriage) at the C...
11: ... to prevent such a marriage was motivated by his determination to be the sole heir to the Neville sist...
19: ...Queen consort and her son was created [[Prince of Wales]]; however, Edward of Middleham died suddenly on ...
21: ..., when one was established by the Richard III Society. - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
3: ...e to King [[Henry V of England]], as part of the settlement following the [[Battle of Agincourt]] (her...
5: ...to form a liaison with, and possibly to marry secretly (but, if so, it was legally invalid), Owen Tudo... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
2: subject_name=Diana, Princess of Wales|
3: image_name=Diana, Princess of Wales.jpg |
11: ... was styled '''Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales'''. She was almost always called '''Princess Dia...
13: ...y]], [[mental cruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], spawning b...
15: ...be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale. - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
1: '''Margaret of Anjou''' ([[March 23]], [[1429]] - [[August 25...
3: Margaret was born in the province of [[Lorraine]] in [[Fra...
12: ... was the result of an adulterous liaison on Margaret's part.
14: ...aid to have witnessed her commander, [[James Touchet, Lord Audley]] defeated by a Yorkist army under [...
16: ...k and the Earl of Salisbury were destroyed. Margaret had both beheaded, and ordered the placing of the... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...oria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum]]
3: ...rior to her accession, she was also [[Princess of Wales]], [[Duke of Cornwall|Duchess of Cornwall]] and [...
5: ...mily]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions. She was the ...
13: ...g [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany...
17: ...he United Kingdom|Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales]]. Princess May was chosen as a bride for Albert ... - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...ears Sarah's junior. They called one another by pet names, Sarah being "Mrs Freeman" and Anne "Mrs Mo...
4: ... the Duke died in [[1722]] and never saw the completion of [[Blenheim Palace]], the house built for hi...
6: ... Spencer]] (1710-1735), to [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]]. The Duchess remained friendly with the prince...
8: ...Seymour, Duchess of Somerset|The Duchess of Somerset]] | years=1704–1710}} - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
1: ...e name of an English poet, see [[Mary Robinson (poet)]]''
23: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] after a career as a judge in the Colonial S...
25: ..., founded by [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]] and once a [[Protestant]], [[Unionist]] bast...
41: ...ttle, Wood Quay was ultimately bulldozed and concreted over, to build the controversial Civic Offices....
43: ...had signed with the British Government of [[Margaret Thatcher]]. Robinson argued that unionist politic... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: ...+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...cknamed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to ...
29: ...r also dispatched a [[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in...
31: ...itain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] ... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: '''Nina Hamnett''' ([[February 14]], [[1890]] – [[December...
3: ...rn in [[Tenby]], [[Pembrokeshire]], [[Wales|South Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] ...
5: ...ving there at the time. In Montparnasse she also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Ro...
7: Flamboyantly unconventional, Nina Hamnett once danced nude on a Montparnasse caf頴able ju...
9: ...tt.jpg]]</td></tr><tr><td><center>'''- ''Nina Hamnett'' -'''</center></td></tr></table> - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...nger sister, Muriel. This time that they spent together sheltered Amelia from her father and his [[alc...
8: ...employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. During this time, she was able to keep up wi...
10: ...hen the crew returned to the States, they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York and a rec...
14: ...d the Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
20: ... 22,000 miles (35,000 km) of the journey was completed. The remaining 7,000 miles (11,000 km) would al... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...ield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying a...
10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan...
12: In [[July]] [[1932]], she set a solo record for the flight from England to [[Ca...
14: ... had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a flight of theirs.
16: ... Rapide]] nonstop from [[Pendine Sands]], South [[Wales]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The plan... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
17: ...ejected the marriage proposal of politician and poet [[Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton]], ...
19: ...bert]], a brilliant politician who had been [[Secretary at War]] ([[1845]] – [[1846|46]]), a pos...
25: ...c.edu/nsa/nightingale.html] in Upper [[Harley Street]], London, a position she held until October [[18...
33: ... She sent many letters to Herbert, to facilitate better medical care.
35: ...h waterproof hood and curtains. The carriage was returned to England after the war and subsequently gi...
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