St Mary's Chapel and Well, Rothesay, Isle of Bute
St. Mary's medieval chapel, Isle of Bute.This was apparently the chancel of the medieval parish chapel originally, according to CANMORE. The ruins have been fairly recently re-roofed providing protection for the already weathered tombs inside. Remains of the holy well is to be seen across the road.
St Blane's Church and Monastery, Isle of Bute
Beautifully located early Christian site in south Bute. Ruined church with upper and lower burial-grounds. Some very old grave-stones. Objects documented include: Celtic cross, plinth or base of cross showing socket, basin or font, Romanesque doorway, piscina and aumbry. Note similarities of design of piscina and aumbry to those of St. Mary's medieval church on Bute.
St Blanes Church , Isle of Bute may 2008
Collection of photos taken between mid May and early June of this year to try and capture some of the tranquil atmosphere to be found amidst the peace and quiet of these 10th - 12th century ruins ... a favourite place of mine ... enjoy ... music by Secret Garden 'Sanctuary'
St. Blane's Church, Isle of Bute, 26/08/2011
This is footage of St. Blane's Church on the Southern end of the Isle of Bute, filmed on 26th August 2011 whilst on a walk with my Dad around the Kilchattan Bay/Glencallum Bay/St. Blane's area. It was a long 3 hour walk, and we passed this fascinating point of interest towards the end of our walk. This is just a quick video walking around the entire ruins of the church, which date from the 1100's.
Edward VIII
Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later the Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 -- 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December 1936.
Edward was the eldest son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was created Prince of Wales on his sixteenth birthday, nine weeks after his father (who had been the previous Prince of Wales) succeeded his own father Edward VII as king. As a young man, he served in the British Armed Forces during the First World War and undertook several overseas tours on behalf of his father.
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Aerial View Of Bombed Hamburg (1943)
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Aerial view of bombed Hamburg, Germany.
Various high angle and aerial shots of bombed harbour and docks in Hamburg. Various aerial shots of the devastation of the city with shells of factories and houses, and others half standing.
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George II of Great Britain
George II (George Augustus; German: Georg II. August; 30 October / 9 November 1683O.S./N.S. – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death.
George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain: he was born and brought up in northern Germany. In 1701, his grandmother, Sophia of Hanover, became second in line to the British throne after about 50 Catholics higher in line were excluded by the Act of Settlement, which restricted the succession to Protestants. After the deaths of Sophia and Anne, Queen of Great Britain, in 1714, his father George I, Elector of Hanover, inherited the British throne. In the first years of his father's reign as king, George was associated with opposition politicians, until they re-joined the governing party in 1720.
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George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 -- 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
George was a grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. From 1877 to 1891, he served in the Royal Navy. On the death of Victoria in 1901, George's father became King Edward VII, and George was made Prince of Wales. On his father's death in 1910, he succeeded as King-Emperor of the British Empire. He was the only Emperor of India to be present at his own Delhi Durbar.
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Charles I of England | Wikipedia audio article
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Charles I of England
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Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was the monarch over the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1612. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Anna culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations. Two years later, he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France instead.
After his succession, Charles quarrelled with the Parliament of England, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. Charles believed in the divine right of kings and thought he could govern according to his own conscience. Many of his subjects opposed his policies, in particular the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent, and perceived his actions as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch. His religious policies, coupled with his marriage to a Roman Catholic, generated the antipathy and mistrust of Reformed groups such as the English Puritans and Scottish Covenanters, who thought his views were too Catholic. He supported high church Anglican ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to aid Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War. His attempts to force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices led to the Bishops' Wars, strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments and helped precipitate his own downfall.
From 1642, Charles fought the armies of the English and Scottish parliaments in the English Civil War. After his defeat in 1645, he surrendered to a Scottish force that eventually handed him over to the English Parliament. Charles refused to accept his captors' demands for a constitutional monarchy, and temporarily escaped captivity in November 1647. Re-imprisoned on the Isle of Wight, Charles forged an alliance with Scotland, but by the end of 1648 Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army had consolidated its control over England. Charles was tried, convicted, and executed for high treason in January 1649. The monarchy was abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England was declared. The monarchy was restored to Charles's son, Charles II, in 1660.
George V | Wikipedia audio article
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George V
00:01:54 1 Early life and education
00:04:33 2 Marriage
00:06:55 3 Duke of York
00:09:22 4 Prince of Wales
00:13:05 5 King and emperor
00:15:47 5.1 National politics
00:18:49 5.2 First World War
00:23:49 5.3 Postwar reign
00:28:59 5.4 Declining health and death
00:33:28 6 Legacy
00:35:12 7 Titles, styles, honours and arms
00:35:23 7.1 Titles and styles
00:36:37 7.2 British honours
00:38:00 7.2.1 Military appointments
00:39:49 7.3 Foreign honours
00:41:28 7.3.1 Honorary foreign military appointments
00:42:02 7.4 Honorary degrees and offices
00:43:02 7.5 Arms
00:43:40 8 Issue
00:43:48 9 Ancestry
00:43:57 10 See also
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George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
Born during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria, George was third in the line of succession behind his father, the Prince of Wales, and his own elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1891, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On the death of his grandmother in 1901, George's father became King-Emperor of the British Empire as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became king-emperor on his father's death in 1910.
George V's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. As a result of the First World War (1914–1918), the empires of his first cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany fell, while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of anti-German public sentiment. In 1924 he appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate, independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations. He had smoking-related health problems throughout much of his later reign and at his death was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII.