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The British government supports the monarch and some of his family financially [1] by means of the Sovereign Grant, which is intended to meet the costs of the sovereign's official expenditures. [2] This includes the costs of the upkeep of the various royal residences, staffing, travel and state visits, public engagements, and official ...
King Charles I 1600–1649 King of England r. 1625–1649: Henrietta Maria of France 1609–1669: Robert Stuart 1602 Duke of Kintyre and Lorne: Mary Stuart 1605–1607: Sophia Stuart 1606 of England: Louis XIII 1601–1643 King of France: House of Hanover: Charles Duke of Cornwall 1629: King Charles II 1630–1685 r. 1649–1651 r. 1660–1685 ...
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.
“It means that we have two senior members of the royal family undergoing cancer treatment. The king, of course, and now the Princess of Wales. Two of the most important members of the royal family.
Count Eustace IV of Boulogne (c. 1130 – 17 August 1153) was appointed co-king of England by his father, King Stephen, on 6 April 1152, in order to guarantee his succession to the throne (as was the custom in France, but not in England).
King Charles’s siblings have spent their lives in the spotlight, but we’re curious to know more about their families and, of course, how King Charles’s transition affected their spot in the ...
King Charles is eliminating some major financial ties to his brother Prince Andrew, a new book claims.. In an updated version of his book, Charles III: New King.New Court. The Inside Story, author ...
In 1697, Parliament under William III fixed the Crown's peacetime revenue at £1,200,000 per year; of this about £700,000 was appropriated towards the Civil List. [1] [2] The sovereigns were expected to use this to defray some of the costs of running the civil government (such as the Civil Service, judges' and ambassadors' salaries) and the ...