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unusual facts about Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester


Henry Stuart

Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, Protestant younger brother of Charles II and James II of England


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Duke of Gloucester

Addleshaw Tower

The tower was formally opened on 25 June 1975 by the Duke of Gloucester.

Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas

But the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, secured his return to Scotland, where Douglas then successfully negotiated the pardons of the other conspirators, gazetted on 25 December 1566.

Clan Lennox

Lennox District tartan: The Lennox District tartan was reproduced from two known copies of a lost portrait dating from the sixteenth century, which was claimed to be of the Countess of Lennox (mother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley who married Mary, Queen of Scots).

Henry Stuart

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, King Consort of Scotland, cousin and second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, father of James VI of Scotland

Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, elder brother of Charles I of England and Prince of Wales from 1603 to 1612

Henry Benedict Stuart, known as Cardinal Duke of York and King Henry IX

Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester

During the debates among Republican army leaders Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton about what kind of regime should succeed the now abolished rule of Charles I, it was briefly suggested that the young prince might be placed on the throne, and made to govern as the kind of limited, constitutional monarch that Parliament wanted.

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox

Through his son Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox, Stewart was the great-great-great-grandfather of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of his first cousin Mary, Queen of Scots and father of James VI, King of Scotland, who became James I, King of England.

Lawrence Hill, Bristol

was held by the Crown until it was granted to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester during the reign

Rimutaka Incline

Unusual traffic included four royal trains: for the Prince of Wales in 1921; the Duke (later King George VI) and Duchess of York in 1927; the Duke of Gloucester in 1935; and Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1954.

The Last of the Barons

Other historical figures that appear frequently in the text are Duke of Clarence, Duke of Gloucester (the future King Richard III), Marquess of Montagu, and Lord Hastings.

The Queen's Palaces

Her disastrous marriage to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, the murder of her private secretary David Rizzio and a year later the mysterious death of Darnley.

Tim Downie

He appeared as the Duke Of Gloucester in the 2010 83rd Academy Awards-winning film The King's Speech.

Waller Rodwell Wright

One of these odes, on the Duke of Gloucester's installation at Cambridge, had been printed in 1811 and forwarded in September by Dallas to Byron, who wrote: ‘It is evidently the production of a man of taste and a poet, though I should not be willing to say it was fully equal to what might be expected from the author of “Horæ Ionicæ.”’ In reference to this poem Byron had previously written in ‘English Bards:’

White City, Gloucester

The estate was formally opened by the Duke of Gloucester, in a tree-planting ceremony held on 14 July 1928.


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