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During the interregnum period (1649–1660), when England came under commonwealth rule and the protectorate rule of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, those governments appointed Virginia's governors. William Berkeley , who was governor at the time of the execution of King Charles I , remained in office until the arrival of a Commonwealth fleet in ...
The Bill of Rights 1689 established that, whichever of the joint monarchs, William III and Mary II, died first, the other would reign alone. As Mary II died first, on 28 December 1694, William III became sole remaining monarch. On the day of Mary's death, the line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones was:
William II: No recognised heir 1100–1116 Henry I: William Adelin, Duke of Normandy: Heir apparent Son 19 March 1116 Proclaimed heir [3] 25 November 1120 Died: No recognised heir 1120–1126 Matilda, Countess of Anjou: Heiress presumptive: Daughter: 25 December 1126 Proclaimed heiress: 22 December 1135 Throne usurped by first cousin Stephen ...
Between 1881 and 1894, Maria's husband ruled as Russia's sovereign. [12] Her son, Nicholas II, became Emperor of Russia upon Alexander III's death. [11] Nicholas married Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, on 26 November 1894, and Alix became his consort, adopting the name Alexandra Feodorovna. [11]
This story was published in May 2022, ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. On September 8, 2022, ... was the Empress of Russia and wife of Tsar Nicholas II of the house Romanov.
Jocelyn R. Wingfield, Virginia's True Founder: Edward Maria Wingfield and His Times (Booksurge, 2007) Benjamin Woolley, Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America (Harper Perennial, 2008) William M. Kelso, Nicholas M. Luccketti, Beverly A. Straube, The Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeology Project
Queen Anne became monarch of the Kingdom of Great Britain after the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707. She had ruled England, Scotland, and the Kingdom of Ireland since 8 March 1702. She continued as queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death.
James II was ousted by Parliament less than four years after ascending to the throne, beginning the century's second interregnum. To settle the question of who should replace the deposed monarch, a Convention Parliament elected James' daughter Mary II and her husband (also his nephew) William III co-regents , in the Glorious Revolution .