Isabel ii

She was just 5th in the line of succession, but a series of historical vagaries put the princess on the world’s most powerful throne.

The Duchess of Cambridge stepped out today in a custom lace Alexander McQueen dress reminiscent of an outfit worn by the monarch to a garden party in Sydney on her 1954 Australia tour.

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday carried out her first public engagement outside of a royal residence since early March when thecoronavirus pandemic started to impact upon on all aspects of day-to-day life in the U. K. The 94-year-old monarch was joined by her grandson Prince William at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down near Salisbury, in southern England, and met with scientists battling the virus.

Isabel gained weight and lost the ability to successfully wear elaborate dresses, but this portrait shows that she has an attractive figure. This...

HM Queen Elizabeth II, 1950s.

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Isabel II (10 October 1830, Madrid – 10 April 1904, Paris), queen regnant of Spain from 1833 until 1868. She came to the throne as an infant, bearing the impressive-by-any-standard name: Doña Isabel II por la Gracia de Dios, Reina de Castilla, de León, de Aragón, de las Dos Sicilias, de Jerusalén, de Navarra, de Granada, de Toledo, de Valencia, de Galicia, de Mallorca, de Sevilla, de Cerdeña, de Córdoba, de Córcega, de Murcia, de Menorca, de Jaén, de los Algarbes, de Algeciras, de Gibraltar…

Infanta Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York was the daughter of King Peter of Castile and María de Padilla. She was a younger sister of Constance, Duchess of Lancaster. On March 1, 1372, Isabella married Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, he was the fourth son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, at...

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