#hanoverian royalty

[youarebeingshaggedbyarareparrot]

So I reckon Hob has a hecking complicated relationship with his religion, but I’m intrigued by the idea of Hob interacting with the notion of ‘The Divine Right of Kings’. And at which point he chucked out the idea as the horse shit it is.

What do you guys think?

1389!Hob – No Kings, No Masters

- In the last decade, Hob’s seen a boy king take the throne, the Peasants’ Revolt, common folk being ground down and serfdom being the way of life for most folk. Fuck that, fuck the King.

1489!Hob – Lost him with Bosworth and books

- The War of The Roses see the end of the Plantagenet line, with murderers and usurpers on the throne. God loves a trier, but really? Also, books. Folks are reading and learning and thinking for themselves, not everything has to come from the king or the church.

1589!Hob – Nailing that shit to the privy council door

- In the desperation of trying to secure its’ legacy, Hob watched the Tudor dynasty break from the church and then just straight up break the church, and is now seeing a royal court from the inside. This dog and pony show is a fucking joke my guys.

1689!Hob – The Royal Oak has its’ bow split

- Divine right didn’t save Charles ii and whatever the fuck Cromwell was didn’t save England either. They’ve had to import royalty lately, have you seen this?

1789!Hob – the Whigs be trying and the wigs be flying

- I’m sorry, run that by me again… How many candidates with a more legitimate claim did you skip over because of ideological differences before you came to George I? 56?… I’m out. The Hanoverians can fucking have it.

1889!Hob – We are no longer fucking amused

- It’s actually a little funny how the tail end of the Hanoverian dynasty was a mad dash for legitimacy and now the Victorians as a society are so fucking repressed and by little funny, Hob means he wants to bite something. Also the genetics have got to be fuuuucked by now

1989!Hob -

- Abdication, rebranding to The House of Windsor, the strained and unhappy marriages… Hob honestly doesn’t know why they’re keeping up the show at this stage.

2022!Hob - Darkest Timeline

- Baby. Baby no, please tell me this is a joke?

[tlaquetzqui]

That’s just an opinion on a dynasty, not a monarchy. If someone considers the current British royals to be the heirs of the Hanoverian Usurpation and therefore not the rightful royalty of England, they are not what I’m talking about.

(Also, three words, “Karl von Habsburg”. The Bourbons ended Spain’s Golden Age, the Habsburkové inaugurated it.)

If you have strong opinions about current British royalty, or any other monarchy, I can only conclude you have been brainwashed by the successor absolutism to absolute monarchy, namely the liberal republic, and are apparently too immature to question the Sunday-school lessons that masqueraded as your civics class.

Again: the alternative to hereditary power is basing power on ability to buy ads in election years, or else to have them basically donated by creepy evil perverts who own TV networks. Which, aside from being at best no better, is also often not even any different, given how often the wealth and influence involved is fucking inherited.

[princessvictoriamelita]

Hereditary Prince George William of Hanover in 1881.

[sunnygander]

Bridgerton sucks because it thinks it has to create an alternate reality to increase the stakes and scandals and it still has absolutely nothing compared to the real and true prussian royal orgy blackmail scandal of 1891 or vincenzo gonzaga sponsoring an expedition to south america to find a mythical erectile dysfunction cure

[pokadandelion]

Princess Alice of Greece with her four daughters:

Princess Margarita, future Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Princess Theodora, future Margravine of Baden

Princess Cecilie, future Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse

Princess Sophie, future Princess of Hanover

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

On this day in royal history . 29th January 1820 . 👑 King George III died . . ◼ In the last years of his life the king suffered from dementia & became completely blind & increasingly deaf. . ◼ He was incapable of knowing or understanding either that he was declared King of Hanover in 1814, or that his wife (Queen Charlotte) died in 1818. . ◼ Over Christmas 1819, he spoke nonsense for 58 hours, & for the last few weeks of his life was unable to walk. . ◼ He died at Windsor Castle at 8:38 pm on 29 January 1820, six days after the death of his fourth son, the Duke of Kent. His favourite son, Frederick, Duke of York, was with him. . ◼ He was buried on 16 February in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. . ◼ George was succeeded by two of his sons George IV & William IV, who both died without surviving legitimate children, leaving the throne to the only legitimate child of the Duke of Kent, Victoria, the last monarch of the House of Hanover. . ◼ He lived for 81 years & 239 days & reigned for 59 years & 96 days: both his life & his reign were longer than those of any of his predecessors. Only Victoria & Elizabeth II have since lived & reigned longer. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDay #otd #TheYear1820 #GeorgeIII #KingGeorgeIII #HouseofHanover #KingofHanover #Hanoverian #Royalty #History #RoyaltyinArt #BritishMonarchy #D29Jan #RoyalFamily  #royal #Royalty #BuckinghamPalace #windsorcastle #Georgians #Georgian #britishroyalfamily #royals #Britain #britishroyalty #britishroyals #crown #otd  #monarchy #RoyalHistory Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021 (at Windsor Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKpNu2oDdr7/?igshid=rll7pzywvk40

[historywithlaura]

AMELIA

Princess of the United Kingdom

(born 1783 - died 1810)

pictured above is a portrait of the Princess of Great Britain, painted by Sir William Beechey in the 1700s

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AMELIA was born in 1783 at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, during the reign of her father.

She was the youngest daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, and Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

A member of the British branch of the HOUSE OF HANOVER, she was from birth a PRINCESS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

pictured above is a portrait of the Princess of Great Britain with two of her older sisters (Princess Mary and Princess Sophia), painted by John Singleton Copley in 1785

Her father started to show symptoms of mental illness around 1788, when she was 5 years old.

And, when she was 15, in 1798, her own health started to decrease.

As she always suffered from poor health, she was constant on the move to try to improve her health.

Around 1800/01, when the Acts of Union created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, her father became its first Monarch as George III, King of the United Kingdom and she a PRINCESS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

During one of her travels, in 1801, she fell in love with an equerry of the household of her father, Charles FitzRoy, a descendant of an illegitimate son of Charles II, King of England.

She hoped to be able to marry him, but due to her frail health, her life was cut short.

The Princess of the United Kingdom died in 1810, aged only 27, at Augusta Lodge, her residence in Windsor, in the United Kingdom, having never married.

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Being the favourite daughter of her father, after her death, the mental health of the King deteriorated, and a Regency had to be instituted. Her oldest brother, George, Prince of Wales, acted as Prince Regent until the death of her father in early 1820.

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COLLECTION: Descendants of the Monarchs of Ireland - #DotMoI

In a span of four generations, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom was related to the Monarchs of Ireland through her father.

Her father was George III, King of the United Kingdom - the King of Ireland between 1760-1800/01.

[jonessablog]

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[attackfish]

Do you have any thoughts about Zuko interacting with nobility?

I do in fact. I have a lot of them, and different manifestations of them tend to show up in my AUs. However, underlying all of them are my assumptions and speculations about what exactly the Fire Nation nobility is at the time of the end of the Hundred Year War.

Typically the nobility of a country or region are the people who either control the most resources, or who can bring the means to make war to bear, or more usually, both. In a feudal society, warlords (or kings if you like) vie for territory, and distribute conquered territory to their followers and/or cooperative members of the conquered territory's elites. These people may further divvy up territory to people who will then owe their allegiance to them first, and though them to the warlord. In return, the new landholders provide local administration of the territory, resources from the land in the form of rents, taxes, or tribute, and military service to the landholders directly above them, and through them, to the warlord. If this warlord and his followers last long enough and are able to pass these territories to their children and grandchildren, they become the royalty and nobility.

This was a pretty common pattern of human governance for a large stretch of history in a whole lot of places. And as seen in "Smoke and Shadow", the Fire Nation has an origin story that fits this pattern well. The first Firelord was a man who conquered the rest of the Fire Nation, uniting the islands into one nation, and presumably setting up a nobility comprised of the cooperative former territorial rulers, and his own followers.

But by the end of the Hundred Year War, the Fire Nation is no longer properly feudal. The Fire Nation has a standing military with a system of rank at least nominally independent from the nobility. Iroh is a prince, but he is also a general, and it is as a general, not as a prince, that he leads an army. Zhao rises from captain, to commander, to admiral. It's entirely possible and even probable that ones family status influences one's career trajectory within the Fire Nation military, with higher born people rising faster and more readily through the ranks than their more humbly born comrades, but the Fire Nation military for the most part, Azula excepted, doesn't have princes and lords leading as princes and lords.

This means that the nobility at this point are no longer the means by which military force is controlled and organized. They might still be wealthy, and command cultural respect, but their power is waning. I would hazard a guess that this is the result of the Hundred Year War itself, that as the Fire Nation changed in order to more efficiently conquer and control more and more territory, and as the Firelord's personal control grew tighter over the military apparatus, the nobility grew weaker and less important to the governance of the country and the military.

This puts the social, governmental, and economic systems of the Fire Nation at the time of the end of the Hundred Year War into a state of transition. I have mentioned that the writers drew not only on the modern US and Imperial Japan for its inspiration for how the Fire Nation empire works, but also on the British Empire: [Link], This is a large part of what I mean by this, and why I sometimes draw inspiration myself for the Fire Nation going forward from British imperial history: [Link]. Following the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, and the installation of the Hanoverians, the Brits really got going on this making an empire thing. And at the same time, their economy and military were rapidly becoming something that we might recognize as similar to modern ones. The military had ranks and a command structure separate from the feudal hierarchy, and while the nobility might occupy nearly all of the top positions in the military, they didn't command as feudal lords. At the same time, merchants and industrialists were building vast fortunes to rival and often surpass the old landed aristocracy.

This meant that the nobility in the UK has been slowly declining in power ever since. Now, in Great Britain during the empire period, that power, along with the power of the royal family spread to more and more segments of society, but during the Hundred Year War, the power of the nobility seems instead to have accrued to the Firelord. This can even be seen in the royal architecture of the Fire Nation. In Sozin's youth, the Fire Nation throne room was open, well lit, and spacious, with the Firelord's throne on a dais, but otherwise not curtained off. By the end of Azulon's reign, the Firelord is hidden on a throne behind a curtain of fire. It's theatrical, dramatic, and meant to intimidate and separate. It serves to cast the Firelord as distant, remote, and no longer quite human.

Ultimately after the end of the war, Zuko's interaction with the nobility is going to be shaped both by his personal characteristics, his awkwardness, his anxiety, his desire to please and be liked, his existing social ties, to Mai and Ty Lee for example, and just who he is willing and ready to share power with as Firelord.

[scotianostra]

On 5th February 1705 the English Parliament passed the Alien Act designed to secure English interests from what they see as the subversion of the Scottish Parliament.

It all started when the Scottish Parliament wasn't happy with The Westminster Parliament, nothing new there, but this was before we were even part of their union. The problem was they put their own choice of Monarch on the throne after King James VII fled, no negotiations, take it or leave it, Scotland passed the Act of Security, which allowed the Three Estates to choose another successor to Queen Anne.

The Alien Act was England's's response, which demanded that if the Scots did not accept the Hanoverian succession, or begin proceedings on a union of parliaments, then Scottish imports to England would be banned and Scots living in England would be treated as aliens.

Add to this the disastrous Darien Expedition, which, contrary to what some historians tell, did not bankrupt Scotland, it left the richest short of money and they saw the middle classes enjoying making ground on them that they sold Scotland out.

The Scottish nobles sold their souls for English gold in 1707.

The English legislation were designed to ensure the succession of the English Throne didn’t go – heaven forbid – to a Roman Catholic.

You see, at that time, the rule of both countries was still separate in one significant sense, despite the ‘Union of the Crowns’ having taken place around a hundred years previously. There was still to be a King (or Queen) of Scotland and a King (or Queen) of England, albeit since James VI & I, the Crowns had been worn by the same individual. Two separate countries, two separate Thrones, two separate Parliaments, one joined-up King (or mixed-up Queen) to rule them both and in the darkness bind them.

Of course, the English were mortally afraid that the Scots would unilaterally restore the bona-fide line of Stuarts (Stewarts) and in particular, the Catholic James VII & II, who had lately been, in effect, deposed by the ‘Glorious Revolution’, which led to the Protestant Dutchman, William of Orange, stepping up to the Thrones of England and Scotland. In 1704, William’s sister-in-law, Big Annie Stuart, was Queen and as she was showing no sign of producing a live heir, the English Parliament was getting a bit jumpy.

The economic sanctions threatened were such that Scottish imports to England would be banned and Scots living in England would be treated as foreigners with their rights withdrawn. Any land and property that they owned in England would be forfeited. Of course, this primarily affected the Lords and their Ladies, the Nobles, Magnates and landed Gentry; not the burghers and common people. However, from the economic viewpoint of Scotland as a country, it amounted to international blackmail.

The said Lords, left, not quite destitute by Darien shit a brick, with no trade allowed with the English, and the swathes of land they owned down south it could push them over the edge and they could lose everything.

One outcome, if Scotland had gone its own way, would have been the creation of a fully independent Scotland with its own Royalty, rather than the hybrid nation it became as a result of the Union of the Crowns. England, of course, had the same hybrid status as long as the two countries shared the same King or Queen. In reality, England had more to lose and as it was fighting a war with France, it needed Scottish cannon fodder.

England, through its Parliament, determined that full union of the two Parliaments and nations was essential, before Anne’s death, in order to rule out, once and for all, any partition. The representatives of the English Parliament set about their purpose with a will and used a combination of exclusionary legislation i.e., the Alien Act of 1705, politics with a small ‘p’, and bribery with a large ‘B’ to achieve the desired result.

That end result was the Act of Union of 1707. The Act of Union contained twenty-five articles, which were mostly economic. Likely opposition from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was negated by the promise that it would continue to be the official religion. In addition, it was agreed that the substantially different Scottish system of law would be preserved. The path to agreement was not easy as it was almost universally opposed by the common people of Scotland, in a way this has hardly changed in some peoples minds.

Countless petitions and riots occurred, but were effectively ignored. On the other hand, many of the Scottish Nobility stood to benefit financially from, amongst other things, the relaxation of rules against trading with English (then to be British) colonies abroad. The treaty was passed by a large majority of 110 votes ‘for’ to 67 votes ‘against’, but only after the scandal of the bribery, which Robert Burns sums up nicely in his poem, ‘Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation’.

“What force or guile could not subdue Thro’ many warlike ages Is wrought now by a coward few For hireling traitor’s wages.”

Many have argued that Scotland benefited greatly from the Union and there is no doubt Scots played a significant part in the subsequent establishment of the British Empire. However, things could have been very different and the financial crisis, which led the ruling classes to accept the proposal, was provoked by the actions of the English in the first place.

[racefortheironthrone]

thoughts on The Favorite and its ending?

I generally liked it, although it’s a fairly satirical revisionist take on the period. Godolphin and Malborough were hardly political naifs being directed by Sarah Churchill, nor were their rivals in Parliament utterly dependent on Abigail.

The ending is odd. Thematically, I get the idea that Abigail has achieved her ambition, but found herself just as dependent on the queen’s favour and just as subject to demands on her body as she was at the beginning of her story. Hence the imagery of the rabbits.

As a matter of history, it’s kind of an odd choice, because the story doesn’t end with Sarah and John Churchill on the run. (And to be honest, any issue of Sarah’s peculation was pretty secondary to the fact that John Churchill had been skimming from the army accounts, albeit with royal permission, and doing a little outreach to the Jacobites in case he needed to switch sides again.)

See…the movie ends in late 1712. What it doesn’t show is the Churchills having a grand old time on the continent being feted by European royalty in their German principality - making sure to get in good with the Hanoverians while they’re there - while the Tories tear each other to pieces politically now that the war’s over. This means that when Queen Anne dies in 1714 (which puts a swift end to Abigail Masham’s political career), the Churchills are besties with the new administration and come back to England looking for revenge. The Tory leaders who exiled them end up in the Tower of London or in exile in France, and John Churchill gets one last hurrah in defeating the Jacobite Rising of 1715.

Meanwhile, Sarah ends up writing an incredibly influential set of memoirs which depict Queen Anne as weak, stupid, etc. And it’s those memoirs which become incredibly influential in how history remembers Queen Anne. So in a lot of ways, Sarah Churchill gets the last laugh.  

[ruslanxivanov-blog]

TRIDENT TASK 000: Detailed introduction.

BASIC INFORMATION

FULL NAME: Ruslan Mikhail Ivanov (Руслан Міхаіл Иванов) PRONUNCIATION: Ruws-lan MEANING: Lion NICKNAME(S): Rus, Russy PREFERRED NAME(S): He has no preference, it depends on the person BIRTH DATE: May 3, 1994 AGE: 25 ZODIAC: Taurus GENDER: Male PRONOUNS: Male ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Biromantic SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual NATIONALITY: Belerusian ETHNICITY: Caucasian CURRENT LOCATION: Isle D'Alessio LIVING CONDITIONS: With Maya Simon TITLE(S): Prince of Belarus

BACKGROUND

BIRTH PLACE: Minsk, Belarus HOMETOWN: Minsk, Belarus SOCIAL CLASS: Royalty, upper EDUCATION LEVEL: Nearly finished his Bachelors in International Law FATHER: Stanisław Albrecht Ivanov MOTHER: Anna Christina Ivanova ADOPTED?: no SIBLING(S): Eldest male sibling is 2 years older, elder twin brother, and two other younger siblings BIRTH ORDER: 3rd CHILDREN: none PET(S): (not on the island) two dogs: Apollo and Zeus, named after the dogs on Magnum PI; his horse, a black Hanoverian named Artax, named after the horse in the Neverending Story OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIVES: none at present PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: A girlfriend who cheated on him and dumped him the day that he found out about it

SKILLS & ABILITIES

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: Fit. Riding keeps him in shape TEAMWORK: He begrudgingly works on teams but prefers to work alone. TALENTS: Equestrian, shooting, working with animals  SHORTCOMINGS: Stubborn, doesn’t open up easily, quiet LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, English. Also knows a bit of Romanian, Italian, German, and French DRIVE?: Yes RIDE A BICYCLE?: Yes SWIM?: Yes PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: Piano PLAY CHESS?: Yes PICK A LOCK?: Yes

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

FACE CLAIM: Xavier Dolan EYE COLOUR: Brown HAIR COLOUR: Dark Brown HAIR TYPE/STYLE: Thick, wavy, unruly HEIGHT: 5′7″ WEIGHT: 140lbs. EXERCISE HABITS: He rides regularly and occasionally goes for a jog but isn’t that keen on full on exercising  SKIN TONE: Pale TATTOOS: Right forearm, winding snakes PIERCINGS: None MARKS/SCARS: Thrown from his horse when he was 9 and broke his leg. He has scars from the surgery to fix the bone. NOTABLE FEATURES: Great hair, sexy mouth USUAL EXPRESSION: Classic resting bitch face CLOTHING STYLE: Usually jeans and tshirts, brand names of course.   JEWELRY: A ring with his family crest on it ALLERGIES: None BODY TEMPERATURE: Normal DIET: Normal, fruits, veggies, meats, breads, all the good things  PHYSICAL AILMENTS: None

PSYCHOLOGY

MBTI TYPE: ISTJ MORAL ALIGNMENT: Lawful Good TEMPERAMENT: Melancholic ELEMENT: Earth PRIMARY INTELLIGENCE TYPE: Logical-mathematical APPROXIMATE IQ: 135 MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: None SOCIABILITY: Not the most social. He has his core friends but tends to keep people at a distance. He will engage and be charming at official events but it’s draining for him EMOTIONAL STABILITY: Stable OBSESSION(S): None COMPULSION(S): None PHOBIA(S): None ADDICTION(S): None PRONE TO VIOLENCE? No

MANNERISMS

SPEECH STYLE: He’s not frivolous with his words. When he speaks it’s because he has something important to say. He may take a few moments to collect his thoughts to make sure it’s exactly what he means but otherwise, he has a normal tone and volume.  ACCENT: Medium accent similar to a Russian accent. He sometimes forgets ‘the’ or ‘a/an’ in sentences but is otherwise fluent in English QUIRKS: He touches his hair a lot HOBBIES: Riding his horse, shooting things (mostly targets and clay pigeons) HABITS: He’s very thorough with his routines in the morning and the evenings NERVOUS TICS: Fiddles with his hands if he’s not paying attention DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: Tradition, order, everything in its place FEARS: Losing family, losing control POSITIVE TRAITS: Responsible, honest, calm NEGATIVE TRAITS: Stubborn, judgemental, takes blame where he shouldn’t SENSE OF HUMOUR: He really likes Monty Python DO THEY CURSE OFTEN? Not often but when necessary

FAVOURITES

ACTIVITY: Riding ANIMAL: Horses and dogs BEVERAGE: Vodka+7 BOOK: Crime And Punishment by Tolstoy COLOUR: Blood red FOOD: Kletski (with apple, not meat) FLOWER: Linseed (official flower of Belarus) GEM: Ruby HOLIDAY: Easter MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: Horse MOVIE: Monty Python and the Holy Grail MUSICAL ARTIST: Hoser QUOTE/SAYING: “My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.” - George Washington SCENERY: Forest SCENT: Autumn, horses  SPORT: Equestrian TELEVISION SHOW: Monty Python, Brooklyn Nine-Nine WEATHER: Overcast

ATTITUDES

GREATEST DREAM: Keeping Belarus running smoothly for his people GREATEST FEAR: Failure MOST AT EASE WHEN: On his horse or at home LEAST AT EASE WHEN: There’s chaotic/unpredictable people around WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN: He does something to gravely hurt someone else or that directly causes them to be hurt or die BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT ( TO DATE ): Competing in the 2018 Summer Olympics in Rio BIGGEST REGRET: Trusting his gut with his girlfriend in high school MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: Falling from his horse and needing to be air lifted to the hospital BIGGEST SECRET: He’s scared he’ll disappoint his parents coming out as bisexual though he’s been leaning more and more towards men as of late (likely to do with the heartache from the ex)  TOP PRIORITIES: Survival

[aeonpath-blog]

Princess Frederica of Hanover

[princessvictoriamelita]

King George V of Hanover, 1860s.

[sim69p]

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[thebritishmonarchycouk]

George II . (b. 9 November 1683 – d. 25 October 1760) . George II was King of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) & a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death in 1760 . George spoke only French, the language of diplomacy & the court, until the age of four, after which he was taught German. In addition to French & German, he was also schooled in English & Italian, & studied genealogy, military history, & battle tactics with particular diligence. . During the War of the Austrian Succession, George participated at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743, & thus became the LAST British monarch to lead an army in battle. . At the age of nearly 77 he had lived longer than any of his English or British predecessors. . . Swipe ⬅️ . . . #GeorgeII #KingGeorgeII #theking #Hanover #Hanoverian #HouseofHanover #royalfamily #royal #royalty #windsorcastle #buckinghampalace #britishroyalfamily #royals #EnglishHistory #Britishhistory #Thecrown #Monarch #monarchy #Britishroyals #britishroyalty #BritishRoyalFamily #history #crown #britishmonarchy #windsor #RoyalHistory #HistoryFacts #British #London #Historic (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAcwb8IA1fw/?igshid=prrumarb50c4