Category: History - British
By statutes of the 12 and 13 Will. HE., and 6 Anne c. 11, Article 2, the British Parliament, limiting the monarchy to members of the Church of England, excluded the Stuarts, and from and after the death of King William and the Princess Anne without heirs, contrived that the Cr...
When George II. died, his grandson and successor, George III., was twenty-two years of age. The Civil List of the new King was fixed at L800,000 a year, "a provision," says Phil...
3. CHAPTER III. THE REIGN OF GEORGE IIWhen George I. died there was so little interest or affection exhibited by his son and successor, that Sir Robert Walpole, on announcing to George II. that by the demise of his...
5. CHAPTER V. THE REIGN OF GEORGE IVThe wretched reign of George IV. commenced on the 30th January, 1820. Mr. Buckle speaks of "the incredible baseness of that ignoble voluptuary who succeeded George III. on the t...
2. CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF GEORGE IOn August 1st, 1714, George Lewis, Elector of Hanover, and great-grandson of James I., of England, succeeded to the throne; but being apparently rather doubtful as to the recept...
6. CHAPTER VI. THE REIGN OF WILLIAM IVWilliam Henry, Duke of Clarence, Admiral of the Fleet, and third son of George III, born August 21st, 1765, succeeded his brother George IV. as King of England, on the 26th of J...
1. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORYBy statutes of the 12 and 13 Will. HE., and 6 Anne c. 11, Article 2, the British Parliament, limiting the monarchy to members of the Church of England, excluded the Stuarts, and...
7. CHAPTER VII. THE PRESENT REIGN.Her present Majesty, Alexandrina Victoria, was born May 24th, 1819, and ascended the throne June 20th, 1837, as representing her father, the Duke of Kent, fourth son of George H...