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Royal intermarriage is the practice of members of ruling dynasties marrying into other reigning families. It was more commonly done in the past as part of strategic diplomacy for national interest . Although sometimes enforced by legal requirement on persons of royal birth, more often it has been a matter of political policy or tradition in ...
For centuries, English official public documents have been dated according to the regnal years of the ruling monarch.Traditionally, parliamentary statutes are referenced by regnal year, e.g. the Occasional Conformity Act 1711 is officially referenced as "10 Ann. c. 6" (read as "the sixth chapter of the statute of the parliamentary session that sat in the 10th year of the reign of Queen Anne").
Transcontinental royal intermarriages is royal intermarriage between royal families originating from different continents. One of the best-known instances of transcontinental royal intermarriage is the one between Alexander the Great , king of Macedon, and his three Persian wives, Roxana , Stateira and Parysatis .
12 December 1992: Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom and Royal Navy officer Timothy Laurence [11] 9 June 1993: Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan and diplomat Masako Owada; 10 June 1993: Prince Abdullah of Jordan and Rania Al-Yassin; 18 September 1993: Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg and Marc Victor Cunningham
A marriage of state is a diplomatic marriage or union between two members of different nation-states or internally, between two power blocs, usually in authoritarian societies and is a practice which dates back to ancient times, as far back as early Grecian cultures in western society, and of similar antiquity in other civilizations.
Queen Elizabeth I's grandfather, King Henry VII, is Queen Elizabeth II's 12-times great-grandfather, connecting them through the broader royal lineage. Universal History Archive/Getty Queen ...
A royal wedding is a marriage ceremony involving members of a royal family. Weddings involving senior members of the royal family are often seen as important occasions of state and attract significant national and international attention.
Date of accession Time intervening Date of coronation Presiding cleric George I [j] 1 August 1714, O.S. 2 mo 19 d: Wednesday, 20 October 1714, O.S. Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury George II - article: Caroline of Ansbach: 11 June 1727, O.S. 4 mo: Wednesday, 11 October 1727, O.S. William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury George III - article