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6 unusual facts about Prince Andrew, Duke of York


Andrew Windsor

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

Bishopsgate School

The Duke of York opened the Jubilee Building (years 3 to 8) in 2003, and the Windsor Building(pre-prep) in 2006.Since then the school has opened several other new facilities, including a Design Technology Centre, floodlit all-weather pitch and Performing Arts Studio.

Connah's Quay High School

When Prince Andrew, Duke of York visited the school to declare the new block officially open, the opening ceremony was interrupted by a fire alarm caused by a hot tea urn.

Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht

This link makes Sarah Ferguson and her ex-spouse, Queen Elizabeth II's second son Prince Andrew, Duke of York, distant cousins.

Nicholas John Benson

The most notable thing about the book are the introductions - one by Prince Andrew and the other by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

Wythenshawe

In 2009, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York (former wife of Prince Andrew) went to Wythenshawe to make a television documentary for ITV1 entitled The Duchess On The Estate.


A Jovial Crew

The second of the performances noted by Pepys, on 27 August 1661, was attended by both King Charles II and his brother the Duke of York, eventually to reign as James II.

Adam Buck

His patrons included Angelica Catalani (an opera singer), JP Kemble, Sir Francis Burdett, Thomas Hope, George IV, the duke of York and his mistress Mary Anne Clarke.

Alexander Munro of Bearcrofts

In the spring of 1683 he and several sympathizers went to London, ostensibly to arrange for a Scots colony to the Carolinas, but really to help the Earl of Shaftesbury in a great Whig plot to overthrow the King and Government and to exclude the Catholic Duke of York from succession to the throne.

An Act of Valour

Director Allan Corduner had previously worked - as an actor - with both D'Amico and Monaco in the West End: with D'Amico in the play The Boys Next Door at the Comedy Theatre, and with Monaco in the revival of A View from the Bridge at the Duke of York's Theatre.

August Engelhardt

Kabakon was a Duke of York island, close to Neu-Lauenburg, in the Bismarck Archipelago, (now Papua New Guinea) and 28 miles from Herbertshöhe (today Kokopo), where the German New Guinea imperial administration was based at that time.

Augustus Simon Frazer

From August to late November, he took part in the Duke of York's expedition in Holland.

Balmoral Castle

The mountain was the setting for a children's story, The Old Man of Lochnagar, told originally by Prince Charles to his younger brothers, Andrew and Edward, and published in 1980 with royalties accruing to The Prince's Trust.

Bothrochilus

Found on the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, including Umboi, New Britain, Gasmata (off the southern coast), Duke of York and nearby Mioko, New Ireland and nearby Tatau (off the east coast), the New Hanover Islands and Nissan Island, the type locality given is "Nouvelle Irlande" (New Ireland).

Castricum

On 6 October 1799, a Franco-Dutch army under Guillaume Brune defeated an Anglo-Russian army under Ralph Abercromby and the Duke of York in the Battle of Castricum.

Crown in Saskatoon

Other members of the Royal Family who have visited include Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in 1980, the Prince of Wales (Charles) in 2001, the Princess Anne in 1982 and (as Princess Royal) in 2004, the Duke and Duchess of York (Andrew and Sarah) in 1989, and the Prince Edward in 1978.

Duke of York's Picture House, Brighton

Famous faces to have been interviewed on the show include Kristin Scott Thomas and John Hurt.

Duke's Company

The Duke's Company had the patronage of the King's younger brother the Duke of York, the future King James II.

Edward William Davies

In July 1902 Davies told Dr Henry Lotz, that he was actually the long-lost son of the Duke of York, and in August 1902 he complained to Lotz about the influence of X-rays on his mind.

Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy

The College, on the corner of Russell Street and Victoria Street adjacent to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, was officially opened on 27 April 1927 by Her Royal Highness Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Duchess of York, during a royal visit to Australia by her and her husband, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Duke of York, later King George VI.

George Pinckard

He was promoted for his services to the rank of deputy inspector-general of hospitals, and had part of the direction of the medical service in the Duke of York's expedition to Den Helder.

Georgina Cookson

She was no less busy in the 50s, with notable appearances including Lionel Shapiro’s The Bridge for Bristol Old Vic (1952); 13 for Dinner (Duke of York's Theatre, 1953); the world premier of I Capture the Castle, with Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and a young Roger Moore, which opened at Grand Theatre, Blackpool before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in 1954; and Robert Morley’s Six Months’ Grace (Phoenix Theatre, 1957).

Gibbon's Tennis Court

After the English Restoration in 1660, Charles II granted Letters Patent to two companies to perform "legitimate drama" in London: the Duke's Company under the patronage of the Duke of York, led by William Davenant, and the King's Company, led by Thomas Killigrew.

Hired armed cutter Tartar

The expedition was under the command of Admiral Adam Duncan and the Duke of York.

Iain Softley

A stage adaptation of Softley's film Backbeat was performed at the Duke of York's Theatre, London (17 September – 24 March 2011), co-written with Stephen Jeffreys, musical direction by Paul Stacey, and directed by David Leveaux.

John Dalrymple, 14th Earl of Stair

Lord Stair's mother, Davina, therefore, is a first cousin of The Queen and he is a second cousin of The Prince of Wales, The Princess Royal, The Duke of York, and The Earl of Wessex.

John Gauden

In 1693 further correspondence between Gauden, Clarendon, the duke of York, and Sir Edward Nicholas was published by Arthur North, who had found them among the papers of his sister-in-law, a daughter-in-law of Bishop Gauden; but doubt has been thrown on the authenticity of these papers.

Joseph Sharp

Joseph Sharp was a landowner and, after a group of investors led by William Penn and previously the Duke of York, owned the land where the present day Wallkill Golf Club is located.

King's Company

Killigrew's King's Company fell under the sponsorship of Charles himself; Davenant's Duke's Company under that of Charles's brother, then the Duke of York, later James II of England.

LGBT rights in New Jersey

Sodomy was a capital crime in New Jersey from when the Duke of York took control of the province from the Dutch.

Nicola Bryant

In February 2006, she performed in a New End Theatre production of the Carl Djerassi play Taboos, and in early 2007 appeared in a London stage production of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll at the Duke of York's Theatre.

Per Lindstrand

Lindstrand received the Royal Aero Club's Gold Medal from Prince Andrew twice, in 1989 and 1991, and the Royal Aero Club’s Britannia Trophy in 1988.

Prince Edward's Gate

Prince Edward had orders from his brother Prince Frederick, the Duke of York, to restore a sense of military discipline at the garrison.

Richard Arnald

By Hurd's influence he was appointed in 1776 preceptor to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, and was made canon of Windsor.

Richard Nicolls

Soon after the Restoration he became Groom of the Chamber to the Duke of York, through whose influence he was appointed in 1664 on a commission with Sir Robert Carr (d. 1667), George Cartwright and Samuel Maverick, to conquer New Netherlands from the Dutch and to regulate the affairs of the New England colonies and settle disputes among them.

Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers

He then fought under Somerset and Shrewsbury in 1439 and the Duke of York in 1441–2, when he was made captain of Alençon and knight banneret.

Royal Hibernian Military School

By 1808 the system and organisation of the school followed closely that of its sister school, the Duke of York's Royal Military School (then at Chelsea, London, England).

Singapore–United Kingdom relations

In 2011, 6 dignitaries from the United Kingdom visited Singapore including Peter Ricketts, the National Security Advisor in January, Martin Donnelly, BIS Permanent Secretary in February, John Aston, FCO Special Representative for Climate Change in March, Jeremy Browne, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in April, Liam Fox, Secretary of State for Defence in June and HRH The Duke of York in September.

Sir Joseph de Courcy Laffan, 1st Baronet

Laffan treated troops in the Peninsular War, he was the personal physician (Physician-in-Ordinary) to Queen Victoria's father the Duke of Kent and also the Duke of York (an elder son of King George III).

Stephen Demainbray

In 1753, he was invited to London by the Prince of Wales, later George III, and the Duke of York, on his return to England he married his second wife, Sarah Horne who was a sister of John Horne Tooke.

Vigil of the Princes

The Prince of Wales, The Duke of York, The Earl of Wessex and Viscount Linley took guard at 16:40 UTC on 8 April 2002 at the lying-in-state of their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (widow of King George VI; daughter-in-law of King George V).

William Brodie Gurney

He reported the impeachment of Lord Melville in 1806, the proceedings against the Duke of York in 1809, the trials of Lord Cochrane in 1814 and of Arthur Thistlewood in 1820, and the proceedings against Queen Caroline.

William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon

The arms are Courtenay impaling the arms of his wife's father as Duke of York: Quarterly 1st: Royal arms of Lionel, Duke of Clarence; second and third, Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster; fourth, Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March.

William Henry Watson

He was educated at the Royal Military College, Marlow, and given a commission in the 1st Royal Dragoons by the Duke of York on 7 May 1812, serving with his regiment in the Spanish peninsula.

Wroth Palmer Acland

He served in Flanders under the Duke of York, and in 1795 was promoted major, and purchased the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 19th regiment.


see also

Sarah Ferguson

Sarah, Duchess of York, née Ferguson, former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York