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4 unusual facts about House of Windsor


Adrian Mitchell

Commissioned to write a poem about Prince Charles and his special relationship (as Prince of Wales) with the people of Wales, his measured response was short and to the point: "Royalty is a neurosis. Get well soon."

Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht

Another link exists into the Royal Windsor family through Sarah Ferguson via Wingfield, Meade, O'Brien, Fitzgerald, and then to Richard Og de Burgh, a grandson of the said Egidia de Lacy, and a greatx5-grandson of Walter de Lacey the Norman soldier.

House of Windsor

High anti-German sentiment amongst the people of the British Empire during World War I reached a peak in March 1917, when the Gotha G.IV, a heavy aircraft capable of crossing the English Channel, began bombing London directly and became a household name.

The Resurrection of Hungary

Instead it was split between republicans (those associated with the Easter Rising in 1916 and who had subsequently joined Sinn Féin) who advocated the creation of a new republic with an elected head of state, and those who advocated the creation of an Irish monarchy, albeit now with a monarch chosen from any royal house but the House of Windsor.



see also

Andrew Windsor

Prince Andrew, Duke of York (born 1960), son of Elizabeth II, of the House of Windsor

Crooked House of Windsor

The Crooked House of Windsor (also known as the Market Cross House) in Windsor, England, is a building constructed in 1592, now a restaurant.