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The Duchess of Kent was born (as Katharine Worsley) in Yorkshire on 22 February 1933. She married Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, in 1961, and had three children. She converted to Catholicism in 1994. In 2002 she retired as an active member of the royal family and discontinued the use of HRH.

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David II of Scotland, the last king of the House of Bruce, died in Edinburgh Castle on 22 February 1371 at the age of 46. He had been on the throne since the age of five.

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Orkney and Shetland were pawned by Norway to Scotland on 20 February 1472 in lieu of a dowry for Princess Margaret, daughter of Christian I of Norway and Denmark. As the wife of King James III of Scotland, she was the Queen Consort and the mother of the future King James IV of Scotland.

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Louise, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Edward VII and wife of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, was born in London on 20 February 1867. She was created Princess Royal in 1905, four years after the death of the previous Princess Royal (Queen Victoria's eldest daughter Vicky).

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Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of George VI and a naval officer in World War II, was appointed the last Viceroy of India, on 20 February 1947, the same day that London announced that the British would leave India by June 1948.

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Edward VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, he was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch who was raised as a Protestant.

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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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England and the Netherlands signed the Treaty of Westminster on 19 February 1674, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transferred the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it was renamed New York. britishonlinearchives.com/posts/catego...

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Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I, was born on 19 February 1594. He died of typhoid in 1612, aged only 18, and his younger brother Charles, a less promising individual, became heir to the throne in his place. When James I died in 1625, Charles became the ill-fated Charles I.

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George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason for conspiring against his older brother Edward IV of England, was executed in private at the Tower of London (allegedly by being drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine) on 18 February 1478.

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Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor to Charles II, was born in Wiltshire on 18 February 1609. His daughter Anne married Charles's younger brother James, Duke of York (the future James II), making Edward the maternal grandfather of Mary II and Queen Anne.

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Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, was born at Greenwich on 18 February 1516. She was not popular because she tried to reinstate Catholicism by force and because she married Philip II of Spain. After a six-year reign, she was succeeded by her younger half-sister Elizabeth I.

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The second battle of St Albans, a Lancastrian victory in the Wars of the Roses, took place on 17 February 1461. The Lancastrian army, led by Queen Margaret, released her husband, Henry VI, from captivity during the battle.

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Elizabeth II gave Marlborough House to the nation, as a Commonwealth Centre, on 17 February 1959. It had previously been the residence of Edward VII while Prince of Wales and of Elizabeth II's grandmother Queen Mary after the death of her husband, George V.

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Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, wife of Queen Victoria's haemophiliac youngest son Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, was born on 17 February 1861. They were married only two years before Leopold died from complications of his disease.

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I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico. Torquemadas the lot of them.

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