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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 19h

Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, consort (as Queen Ena) of Alfonso XIII of Spain and daughter of Queen Victoria's youngest daughter Beatrice, was born in Balmoral Castle on 24 October 1887.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 20h

David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay and heir to the Scottish throne, was born on 24 October 1378. The Rothesay dukedom has been conferred on the heir apparent to the Scottish and then the British throne ever since. On Robert's death, he was succeeded by his youngest son James I.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 20h

Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, died on 24 October 1537 from complications of childbirth two weeks after giving birth to Henry's only legitimate son, the future Edward VI. She and Henry had been married for less than two years.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how much checking they're doing before blowing up these ships.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 2d

He believes in free market capitalism apparently.

tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 5d

He's going to find out the hard way that the sneering question from the Labour party operatives about the party's progressive wing, "where are they going to go if they don't like what we're doing?" has an answer they won't like.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 9d

It's a shame the UK still hasn't figured out that the only country the USA has (and wants) a special relationship with is Israel. Most Americans don't have a clue about this so-called special relationship that matters so much to the UK.

tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 11d

It isn't just New Zealand; it's happening in other countries too and will continue to happen. There's short-term profit to be made from ignoring global warming so they're going to ignore it.

tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 13d

William of Blois, second son of King Stephen and Earl of Surrey through his marriage, died in France on 11 October 1159. He was passed over as Stephen's successor in favour of his cousin Henry II and may have been involved in an unsuccessful plot to assassinate Henry and take the throne.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 13d

Pope Leo X conferred the title of 'Defender of the Faith' (Fidei Defensor) on Henry VIII on 11 October 1521 for his book supporting Catholic principles. The title was withdrawn after Henry broke from Rome but was restored by Parliament to refer to the Church of England.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 14d

Mary of Waltham, daughter of Edward III and consort of John V of Brittany, was born at Bishop's Waltham Palace, Hampshire, on 10 October 1344. She and John married in July 1361, and she died two months later, aged only 16.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 14d

They're not going to, because politicians are more interested in the energy companies than in something stupid like science. Also, it doesn't much matter what the UK does at this point since the USA is back to drill baby drill.

tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 16d

Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, daughter of Margaret Tudor and her second husband Archibald Douglas, was born in Northumberland on 8 October 1515. Her son, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was the second husband of Mary Queen of Scots.

tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 16d

Isabella of Angoulême, second wife of King John, was crowned on 8 October 1200 at the age of 12. She had five children by the king including his heir, the future Henry III. After John's death she remarried and had a further nine children.

tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 18d

I wonder if we'll see the same sort of gloating that happened on the right when Nancy Pelosi's husband was hurt by someone trying to attack her.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 18d

Too many people with bone spurs deciding to sit it out.

tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 19d

Prince Henry of Battenberg, husband of Queen Victoria's youngest daughter Beatrice, was born in Milan on 5 October 1858.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 19d

Mary of Modena, Catholic second wife of James II and mother of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, was born in Modena on 5 October 1658. Her religion made her unpopular in Britain, and the birth of a son led to her husband's overthrow.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 20d

Richard Cromwell, son of Oliver and his successor, for a short time, as Lord Protector, was born in Huntingdonshire on 4 October 1626. After failing to exert his authority as Lord Protector, he resigned and spent many years in exile in Europe before returning to England in the early 1680s.

tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 20d

The marriage treaty between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves was signed on 4 October 1539.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 22d

Mary Tudor, younger sister of Henry VIII, left England for France on 2 October 1514 to marry the much older Louis XII. Henry promised that if Louis predeceased her, she could choose her own second husband. He did predecease her, she did choose her second husband, and Henry was predictably furious.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 22d

Richard III, the last Yorkist king of England and the chief suspect in the murders of the Princes in the Tower, was born in Fotheringhay Castle on 2 October 1452.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 24d

Ernst August, Elector of Hanover, married Sophia of the Palatinate, granddaughter of James I of England, on 30 September 1658. Sophia was heir to Queen Anne under the Act of Settlement; however, she predeceased the queen, so her son, George of Hanover, became king on Anne's death in 1702.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · 24d

Henry Bolingbroke was proclaimed Henry IV of England on 30 September 1399 upon the "voluntary" abdication of his cousin Richard II.

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tnbskts 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👑🇪🇺 @tnbskts.bsky.social · Sep 24

Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, daughter of Queen Victoria's second daughter Princess Alice, mother of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and maternal grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, died at Kensington Palace on 24 September 1950.

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