Sir Richard Woodville, son of Sir Richard Wydevill who had served as the late Duke's chamberlain, was commissioned by Henry VI of England to bring the young widow to England.

The Duke's marriage to a commoner, the widow Anne Horton ( or Houghton ) ( 1743 – 1808 ), on 2 October 1771 caused a rift with the King, and was the catalyst for the Royal Marriages Act 1772 which forbids any descendant of George II to marry without the monarch's permission.

The Duke's wife, Alice, received permission from Queen Elizabeth II to be styled " Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester " to distinguish herself from Prince Richard's wife.

He asked permission from Duke's baseball coach to let him work out with the track team.

Duke's football coach approached him the following season, again getting permission from his baseball coach.

In order to improve Young's and Duke's sleep schedule, the third and final moonwalk of the mission was trimmed from seven hours to five.

The reverse of the photo is signed by Duke's family and bears this message: " This is the family of Astronaut Duke from Planet Earth.

The centre, commanded by the Duke's brother, General Charles Churchill, consisted of 18 battalions of infantry arranged in two lines: seven battalions in the front line to secure a foothold across the Nebel, and 11 battalions in the rear providing cover from the Allied side of the stream.

The game contains several humorous references to pop culture, like some of Duke's lines that are drawn from movies like Aliens, Dirty Harry, Evil Dead II, Full Metal Jacket, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, and They Live ; the mutated women begging " Kill me " are also a reference to the latter.

The Duke's ruling house reigned in Mecklenburg uninterrupted ( except for two years ) from its incorporation into the Holy Roman Empire until 1918.

Another building from the regency of Duke Wilhelm is the Luisenplatz, a square named for the Duke's first wife.

In fact, the Duke's two daughters from his first marriage, Princess Mary and Princess Anne, were considered to have the stronger claim by the English establishment.

Flora's Temple and the 1st Duke's Greenhouse survive from the 1690s, the Stable block and bridge were built by James Paine in the 1760s and Joseph Paxton's Conservative Wall and other glasshouses date from the 19th century.

The red, white, and blue coloring was derived from the Grand Duke's coat of arms, which dates from the 13th century.

In 1789 the Oxford Canal reached Oxford from Warwickshire and the Duke's Cut at Wolvercote gave it a connection to the Thames.

The Duke's victorious efforts were acknowledged by his being voted an income of £ 25, 000 per annum over and above his money from the civil list.

The Duke's return to favour under the House of Hanover enabled him to preside over the defeat of the 1715 Jacobite rising from London ( although it was his former assistant, Cadogan, who directed the operations ).

The Duke's coffin was returned to Blenheim from Westminster Abbey.

The actors gained a Royal " licence to perform ", thus bypassing Rich's ownership of both the original Duke's and King's Company patents from 1660, and formed their own cooperative company.

While the constitution of Luxembourg formerly required the Grand Duke's signature on a new law for it to take effect, this right was stripped from him in 2008 after the monarch informed his prime minister that he could not in good conscience sign a bill to permit euthanasia in the country.

Duke's suits, like the majority of those used in the 1950s, were made from horse hide.

A new Senate or Seanad chamber was created in Duke's old ballroom, while wings from the neighbouring Royal College of Science were taken over as used as Government Buildings.

She worked in big, prestigious London theatre companies throughout her successful career: from 1675 in the Duke's Company, 1682 – 1695 in the monopoly United Company, and from 1695 onwards as a member of the actors ' cooperative usually known as Betterton's Company, of which she was one of the original shareholders.

Barry worked for the Duke's Company from 1675 to 1682, taking the role of Cordelia opposite Thomas Betterton's Lear in Nahum Tate's 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear.

The Times was especially disingenuous, printing a single sentence below a seemingly unconnected report announcing the Duke's departure from Austria.

Although George VI's accession allocution had already declared that his first act was to create his elder brother Duke of Windsor, and that he willed his brother to be styled His Royal Highness ( HRH ) the Duke of Windsor, Letters Patent were issued in 1937 to formalise the creation of the Dukedom, and further Letters Patent were issued in May of that year to regulate the Duke's right to the attribute of Royal Highness – although the pretext of the Letters Patent was the confirmation of the style of Royal Highness upon the Duke, its actual purpose was to restrict the title to the Duke alone, so as to exclude any future wife from sharing in it.

Furthermore, the Act that gave effect to the abdication excluded the Duke's potential descendants from the line of succession established by the Act of Settlement.

His corpse was brought into the Duke's camp, and William gave it for burial to William, surnamed Malet, and not to Harold's mother, who offered for the body of her beloved son its weight in gold.

The Duchess bitterly resented the denial of the royal title and the refusal of the Duke's relatives to accept her as part of the family.

She was unable to divorce her husband ( despite his documented insanity ) because of his relationship to the Spanish royal family, and the duchess and Zaharoff had to wait until the Duke's natural death.

In exchange for a generous grant, Judith guaranteed her neutrality in the Duke's political contest with his half-brother Zbigniew.

Mary spent most of her time at the Duke's country seat of Westhorpe Hall in Suffolk.

Neither marriage was a success: Juan died shortly after his wedding, and young Margaret, who bore only a still-born child several months after her husband's death, was sent back to Burgundy, blamed for having failed to provide Spain with an heir ; Joanna and Philip, by contrast, produced six children, but their marriage was blighted by the Duke's infidelities and the passionate jealousy of his wife.

Following the 1st Duke's death the Duchess concentrated most of her considerable energies on the completion of the palace itself, and the park remained relatively unchanged until the arrival of Capability Brown in 1764.

" During the first part of her career, Barry worked at the Duke's Theatre at Dorset Gardens, on the riverfront, London's most luxurious playhouse.

A few days later, the Queen also visited the Duke of Windsor, and she accepted the presence of the Duchess, who curtsied to her — the first time that a member of the Royal Family had officially received the Duke's wife.

It was partly the Duke's influence that led to a rift between the Duchess and her eldest sister, Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland.

In 1829 the Duke's former aide-de-camp purchased the house from the Duchess in an attempt to reduce her debts.

Following the birth of Princess Victoria in May 1819 the Duke and Duchess sought to find a place where they could live inexpensively, considering the Duke's great debts ( which were not paid until his daughter took the throne and paid them over time from her income ).

Herleva, legend goes, seeing the Duke on his ramparts above, raised her skirts perhaps a bit more than necessary in order to attract the Duke's eye.

The latter was immediately smitten and ordered her brought in ( as was customary for any woman that caught the Duke's eye ) through the back door.

Before her death, Lady Glencora had imprudently given her secret blessing to her daughter Mary's courtship by a poor gentleman, Frank Tregear, a friend of Lord Silverbridge, the Duke's older son and heir.

In truth, Don Fernando has already " enjoyed " the girl he desires, gaining agency to do so by claiming to be her husband, and hopes to tell Cardenio outside of the Duke's palace.

William of Poitiers wrote as follows: " His ( King Harold's ) corpse was brought into the Duke's camp and William gave it for burial to William, surnamed Malet, and not to Harold's mother, who offered for the body of her beloved son its weight in gold ".

The latter attribution has been confirmed and refined by W. L. Halstead and by Cyrus Hoy ( 1980 ), giving the subplot concerning Sir Owen the Welsh Knight and his wife Gwenthyan, as well as that concerning the Duke's sister Julia and her three foolish suitors to Haughton, leaving the main plot to Dekker and Chettle.

As Gainer gets the hang of piloting a real Overman, he and Gain encounter shut-in Princess Anna, the Duke's daughter, who supports the Exodus and wants to see the world and people other than her tutor, Lioubov Smettana.

Jack beheads the giant, the sorceror flees, the Duke's daughter is restored to her true shape, and the captives are freed.

At an official Māori welcome in Rotorua, a guide took a Huia tail feather from her hair and placed it in the band of the Duke's hat as a token of respect.