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William and Catherine, after their wedding, undertook their first official overseas tour together to Canada on the 225th anniversary of the first royal visit by William IV. [ 2 ] [ 26 ] The couple laid a wreath at the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier . [ 27 ]
Catherine II [a] (born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 1729 – 17 November 1796), [b] most commonly known as Catherine the Great, [c] was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III .
Joanna Elisabeth was born to Christian August, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1673–1726), Prince of Eutin and Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, and his wife, Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach (1682–1755), who belonged to a minor branch of the influential House of (Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp). [1]
The Peyton Street facility was converted into a middle school named after Harry Coultrap, the first superintendent of the Geneva School District. After housing the middle school until 1994 and an elementary school until 2009, it was demolished in 2013. The current GHS building was opened in 1958 and was expanded in the 1970s and early 2000s.
Catherine Hyde, often called "Kitty", [2] was the second daughter of Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon, and his wife, the former Jane Leveson-Gower. She served as a Lady of the Bedchamber at the court of Queen Anne. [3] Catherine married Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, on 10 March 1720.
Prince William is presented with a bouquet of flowers and a dragon teddy at the end of his visit to Ysgol Yr Holl Saint/All Saint’s School in Wrexham on March 1, 2024. BEN BIRCHALL/POOL/AFP via ...
Longford was an Elizabethan prodigy house, but Catherine may have thought of it as Gothic architecture, in which she had a fashionable interest. Chesme Church , opposite the palace, is a startling pink Gothic Revival building, on a Russian plan, and the service depicts many Gothic buildings, including ruins. [ 8 ]
In September 2022, Catherine and William visited Anglesey and Swansea which marked their first visit to Wales since becoming Princess and Prince of Wales. [128] In February 2023, they visited Falmouth marking their first visit to the region since becoming Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, titles that are automatically bestowed upon the monarch's ...