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On This Day - 20 November 1992 . Fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage. . On 20 November 1992, a fire broke out in Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world & one of the official residences of Queen Elizabeth II. . The castle suffered extensive damage & was fully repaired within the next few years at a cost of £36.5 million, in a project led by the conservation architects Donald Insall Associates. . It led to the Queen paying tax on her income, & to Buckingham Palace, the Queen’s other official residence, being opened to the public to help pay for the restoration work. . . . #windsorcastle #windsor #royalfamily #royalhistory #windsor #Royal #historic #History #RoyalWindsor #Castle #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #TheQueen #monarchy #Heritage #D20Nov #otd #OnThisDay #thisdayinhistory #OnThisDayInHistory (at Windsor Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH1K33BD7SA/?igshid=e88aaqp61ykq

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On This Day In Royal History . 20 November 1938 . Princess Maud of Wales, Queen of Norway (born 1869) died . Maud was a daughter of King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra died . ◼ Maud came to England for a visit in October 1938. Initially she stayed at Sandringham, but then moved into a hotel in London’s West End. . ◼ She became ill & was taken to a nursing home, where an abdominal operation was performed on 16 November 1938. King Haakon immediately travelled from Norway to her bedside. . ◼ Although she survived the surgery, Maud died unexpectedly of heart failure at Appleton House on 20 November 1938,  six days before her 69th birthday (& on the 13th anniversary of her mother’s death, Queen Alexandra). . ◼ Norwegian newspapers were allowed to break the law forbidding publication on Sundays in order to notify the Norwegian public of her death. . ◼ Her body was returned to Norway on board HMS Royal Oak, the flagship of the Second Battle Squadron of the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet. Her body was moved to a small church in Oslo before the burial. Queen Maud was buried in the royal mausoleum at Akershus Castle in Oslo. . ◼ At her death, Queen Maud was the last surviving child of King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #otd #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #TheYear1938 #PrincessMaud #MaudofWales #QueenMaud #Instahistory #historyfacts #QueenMaudofNorway #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #History #QueenofNorway #BritishMonarchy #D20Nov #thequeen #Vintagephotography #Victorianphoto #vintage #royalfamily #womenshistory #womeninhistory (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHzvvgLD2lJ/?igshid=aqt8b511eu8g

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On This Day In Royal History . 20 November 1737 . Queen Caroline died . . 👑 Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b.1 March 1683), commonly known as Caroline of Ansbach, was Queen of Great Britain as the wife of King George II. . ◼ In the final years of her life, Caroline was troubled by gout in her feet, but more seriously she had suffered an umbilical hernia at the birth of her final child in 1724. . ◼ On 9 November 1737, she felt an intense pain &, after struggling through a formal reception, took to her bed. Her womb had ruptured. Over the next few days she was bled, purged, & operated on, without anaesthetic, but there was no improvement in her condition. . ◼ She asked her husband to remarry after her death, which he rejected saying he would take only mistresses; she replied “Ah, mon Dieu, cela n'empêche pas” (“My God, that doesn’t prevent it”). On 17 November, her strangulated bowel burst. . 👑 She died on 20 November 1737 at St. James’s Palace. . ◼ She was buried in Westminster Abbey on 17 December. George Frideric Handel composed an anthem for the occasion, The Ways of Zion Do Mourn / Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline. The King arranged for a pair of matching coffins with removable sides, so that when he followed her to the grave (23 years later), they could lie together again. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1737 #QueenCaroline #QueenConsort #otd #OnThisDay #CarolineofAnsbach #HouseofHanover #History #RoyaltyinArt #BritishMonarchy #D20Nov #thequeen #Royalhistory #instaroyals #thequeen #stjamespalace #Heritage #Buckinghampalace #onthisday #Westminsterabbey #Greatbritain #Artwork #Portrait #historic #Thecrown #crownjewels #Royalty #Monarchy (at St James’s Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHzt8uMDUYc/?igshid=ayfhjm4x2qli

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On This Day In History . 20 November 1925 . Queen Alexandra died . . ◼ Alexandra retained a youthful appearance into her senior years, but during the war (First World War) her age caught up with her. . ◼ She took to wearing elaborate veils & heavy makeup, which was described by gossips as having her face "enamelled". . ◼ She made no more trips abroad, & suffered increasing ill health. In 1920, a blood vessel in her eye burst, leaving her with temporary partial blindness. Towards the end of her life, her memory & speech became impaired. . ◼ She died on 20 November 1925 at Sandringham after suffering a heart attack, & was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband king Edward VII in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. . . Portrait = Queen Alexandra, 1920 (aged 75) . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1925 #QueenAlexandra #AlexandraofDenmark #QueenConsort #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #History #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #Schleswig #Holstein #Sonderburg #Glücksburg #Portrait #D20Nov #Royalhistory #thequeen #Instahistory #Vintage #Vintagephotography #Buckinghampalace #onthisday #HerMajesty #instaroyals #Royalty #Monarchy (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5GpsulAW_a/?igshid=zkrjtn2wyy7e

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Queen Alexandra . . Born Alexandra of Denmark, ( 1 December 1844), she was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII. . ◼ Her family had been relatively obscure until 1852, when her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant cousin, Frederick VII, to the Danish throne. . ◼ At the age of sixteen, she was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent of Queen Victoria. They married eighteen months later in 1863, the same year her father became king of Denmark as Christian IX & her brother was appointed to the vacant Greek throne as George I. . ◼ She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, & became generally popular; her style of dress & bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. Largely excluded from wielding any political power, she unsuccessfully attempted to sway the opinion of British ministers & her husband's family to favour Greek & Danish interests. Her public duties were restricted to uncontroversial involvement in charitable work. . ◼ On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became king-emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as queen-empress. She held the status until Edward's death in 1910. She greatly distrusted her nephew, German Emperor Wilhelm II, & supported her son during World War I, in which Britain & its allies fought Germany. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #Thisdayinhistory #theyear1925 #Alexandraofdenmark #D20nov #QueenAlexandra #RoyalFamily #history #BritishMonarchy #historyfacts #Monarchy #Instahistory #Thebritishmonarchy (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqaSy-7FZ1R/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vt6d58wq763x