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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, twice serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Detail of a bronze relief panel, depicting the Battle of Waterloo, beneath Carlo Marochetti's statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow. The Spanish government made Wellington commander-in-chief of all allied armies, providing an extra 21,000 Spanish troops after Salamanca. [71] Although not completely undefeated, he never lost a major battle. [72]
The Duke of Wellington's funeral car, without the canopy or its supporting halberds. The original design for Wellington's hearse had been commissioned from the royal undertakers , Messers Ranting of St James , but the submitted proposal was rejected by the Earl Marshal , the 13th Duke of Norfolk , who was responsible for the ceremonial aspects ...
Here is a brief history of the Wellington. In early 19th century England, Arthur Wellesley, the First Duke of Wellington could not stop wearing his favorite pair of shoes known as Hessian boots.
Kempton Bunton (14 June 1904–April 1976) was an English man who confessed to taking Francisco Goya's painting Portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London in 1961. [3] [2] [4] The story of Bunton and the painting was the subject of the October 2015 BBC Radio 4 drama Kempton and the Duke, and the 2020 film The Duke.
The story of the theft of the Goya Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by bus driver Kempton Bunton in 1962 and the following trial of Bunton was dramatised in the film The Duke, released in 2022, [3] and the 2015 BBC Radio 4 drama Kempton and the Duke. [4] Wellington also features in the 1976 board wargame Napoleon's Last Battles.
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The Duke is a 2020 British comedy drama film directed by Roger Michell, with a screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. It is based on the true story of the 1961 theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco de Goya. The film stars Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Goode. It was ...