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On This Day In History . 7 June 1897 . Princess Mary was baptised . . ◼ Her baptism took place at St Mary Magdalene’s Church near Sandringham on 7 June 1897 by William Dalrymple Maclagan, Archbishop of York. . ◼ Her godparents were: the Queen Victoria (her great-grandmother); the King of the Hellenes (her great-uncle); the Dowager Empress of Russia (her paternal great-aunt); the Prince & Princess of Wales (her paternal grandparents); the Duchess of Teck (her maternal grandmother); Princess Victoria of Wales (her paternal aunt); & Prince Francis of Teck (her maternal uncle). . ◼ Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (Full name : Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary; b.25 April 1897 – d.28 March 1965 . ◼ Mary was the third child & only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. . ◼ She was the sixth holder of the title of Princess Royal. Mary held the title of princess with the style Highness from birth. . ◼ After her marriage, she held the title of Viscountess Lascelles & , from 1929, Countess of Harewood. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1897 #Baptism #church #ChurchofEngland #Sandringham #d7jun #PrincessRoyal #CountessofHarewood #MaryPrincessRoyal #RoyalFamily #monarchy #royal #History #BritishMonarchy #HouseofWindsor #QueenMary #RoyalFamily #RoyalHistory #historyfacts #princess #countess #RoyalHistory #otd #onthisday (at Sandringham Estate) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJS_ZeDmYX/?igshid=q3183vokeoyg

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On This Day In Royal History . 7 June 1394 . Anne of Bohemia died from the Plague . ◼ Anne of Bohemia, born 11 May 1366 was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor & King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth of Pomerania. . ◼ She had four brothers, including Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, and one younger sister, Margaret of Bohemia, Burgravine of Nuremberg. She also had five half-siblings from her father’s previous marriages. . ◼ The Evesham chronicler said, “this queen, although she did not bear children, was still held to have contributed to the glory & wealth of the realm, as far as she was able. Noble & common people suffered greatly at her death”. Nevertheless, her popular legacy as “Good Queen Anne” suggests that this lack of children was unimportant to many contemporaries. . ◼ Anne is buried at Westminster beside her husband. Their joint tomb, now damaged, once showed them clasping hands. The inscription on her tomb describes her as “beauteous in body & her face was gentle & pretty.” When her tomb was opened in 1871, it was discovered that many of her bones had been stolen via a hole in the side of the casket. . 👑 Anne of Bohemia is known to have made the sidesaddle more popular to ladies of the Middle Ages. She also influenced the design of carts in England when she arrived in a carriage, presumably from Kocs, Hungary, to meet her future husband Richard. She also made the horned, Bohemian-style headdress the fashion for Englishwomen in the late 14th-century. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1394 #AnneofBohemia #QueenConsort #RichardII #KingRichardII #HouseofPlantagenet #HouseOfLuxembourg #KingdomofBohemia #History #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #d7jun #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #historyfacts #RoyalFamily #Royalty #royals #QueenofEngland (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJSlq0Djju/?igshid=16z4shtos9e1y