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Jul 7, 2024 · Given General Monck’s earlier connections with Cromwell—as general-for-hire against the Irish and the Dutch from 1646 and as Governor of Scotland in the 1650s, before he was created Duke of Albemarle in 1660—the transferring of the monkey metaphor from one low-born wife to another is surely no accident.
19 hours ago · Seringapatam. 1. 1799–1803 1807–1813 1815. Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish military officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, serving ...
19 hours ago · Prince Albert was born on 26 August 1819 at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Germany, the second son of Ernest III, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and his first wife, Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. His first cousin and future wife, Victoria, had been born earlier in the same year with the assistance of the same midwife, Charlotte von Siebold.
19 hours ago · Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel 26 August 1819 14 December 1861 was the husband
