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King Edward VIII
People; Monarchs
King Edward VIII ruled for only 325 days. He abdicated the thrown so that he could marry his love Wallis Simpson. A king is not able to marry a divorced woman and become king, and Mrs Simpson was an ...
Queen Elizabeth II
People; Monarchs
Queen Elizabeth II is the current queen and monarch of Britain. Taking over at the age of 26, Elizabeth took the thrown in 1952. Queen Elizabeth II was the first monarch who had their coronation ...
Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón Dos-Sicilias
People; Monarchs
Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón Dos-Sicilias (1941 - 1956), Infante of Spain, was born in Italy. He was the son of the Count of Barcelona, Juan de Borbón and Princess María de las Mercedes de Borbón-Dos ...
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud
People; Monarchs
One of the world's few remaining absolute monarchs, King Abdullah has continued to pursue an agenda of moderate reform in the desert kingdom that contains 20% of the world's known oil reserves and ...
Charlemagne
People; Monarchs
Charlemagne (Latin: Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus, meaning Charles the Great) (742 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768 to his death. He expanded the Frankish kingdoms into a Frankish ...
Catherine the Great
People; Monarchs
She took power after a conspiracy deposed her husband, Peter III (1728–1762), and her reign saw the high point of the Russian nobility. Peter III, under pressure from the nobility, had already ...