Landy, not at all expecting such a reaction, tells her she should stick to being a widow, and the story ends with William's future uncertain.

A proposal to marry William's elder daughter Isabella to Andronikos, eldest son of Michael VIII, was strongly opposed by the Achaean nobility, who had no desire to come under Byzantine rule.

William's favourite, Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, eventually convinced him to agree to Anne's appointments, and William's acceptance was sent from the Netherlands in September 1698.

In her will, Mary requested that Charles look after William's interests, and Charles now demanded the States of Holland end their interference.

Although Louis took Maastricht and William's attack against Charleroi failed, Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter defeated the Anglo-French fleet three times, forcing Charles to end England's involvement by the Treaty of Westminster ; after 1673, France slowly withdrew from Dutch territory ( with the exception of Maastricht ), while making gains elsewhere.

It was in November 1555, shortly after Charles had abdicated in favour of his son, Philip II of Spain that the gout-afflicted Emperor leaned on William's shoulder during his abdication ceremony.

William's father, Charles Blackstone, was a silk mercer from Cheapside, the son of a wealthy apothecary.

William's head faces right on his coins, with the legend, while the reverse design of William and Mary's reign was judged to be unsuccessful, so the design reverted to that used by Charles II and James II, but with a small shield with the lion of Nassau in the centre, with the legend.

William's head faces right on his coins, with the legend, while the reverse design of William and Mary's reign was judged to be unsuccessful, so the design reverted to that used by Charles II and James II, but with a small shield with the lion of Nassau in the centre, with the legend.

William's head faces right on his coins, with the legend, while the reverse design of William and Mary's reign was judged to be unsuccessful, so the design reverted to that used by Charles II and James II, but with a small shield with the lion of Nassau in the centre, with the legend.

William's head faces right on his coins, with the legend, while the reverse design of William and Mary's reign was judged to be unsuccessful, so the design reverted to that used by Charles II and James II, but with a small shield with the lion of Nassau in the centre, with the legend.

She met and married Charles B. Shepperson, who nurtured his stepson William's musical interests by taking him to operettas and buying Red Seal recordings of classical music, which the boy greatly enjoyed.

Charles ' claim to Gawsworth as heir of his uncle Sir Edward Fitton ( died 1643 ) involved him in a bitter 20 year dispute with his Irish cousins William Fitton and William's son Alexander ( later Lord Chancellor of Ireland ) but was eventually successful.

William's brother, Richard, brother-in-law, Charles Morgan, and father were killed.

William and Baldwin both acknowledged Charles of Anjou as lord of Achaea under the Treaty of Viterbo in 1267 ; Charles had earlier defeated and killed William's old ally Manfred.

* Charles: Seemingly William's only friend at Eton.

Frederick William's son Charles ( a minor at the time of his father's death ) became the first Duke of independent Brunswick.

William's two brothers, Charles and Albert, were also heavily involved in the arts.

It was from William's advice that Charles sent his brother Ferdinand away from Spain.

Charles Blount's mother was William's second wife, Alice, daughter of Henry Keble, Lord Mayor of London.

Three of William's brothers, George, Charles, and Robert, partnered with him in trading with Native Americans in the West.

A high obelisk was erected in 1793 to William's memory by his son, Charles Berners ( 1767 – 1831 ), High Sheriff of Suffolk, which was damaged and demolished during World War II.

Only his son Emperor Charles VI finally legitimised the de facto takeover and enfeoffed George William's second successor, Elector George II Augustus of Hanover ( also British king ) with the duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1728.

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

William's threat that under no conditions would he allow `` freedom-conscious '' slaves to mix with his own was not carried out, for the plantation continued in operation as before.

An innovation in William's coronation ceremony was that before the actual crowning, Ealdred asked the assembled crowd, in English, if it was their wish that William be crowned king.

After Ealdred's death, one of the restraints on William's treatment of the English was removed.

By 1073 there were only two Englishmen in episcopal sees, and by the time of William's death in 1089, there was only one, Wulfstan II of Worcester.

It was William's only personal foundation — he was buried before the high altar of the church in 1214.

On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

The so-called Liturgy of Comprehension of 1689, which was the result, conceded two thirds of the Presbyterian demands of 1661 ; but when it came to Convocation the members, now more fearful of William's perceived agenda, did not even discuss it and its contents were, for a long time, not even accessible.

William's anxiety over them was probably what caused his first nervous breakdown.

An initial Jacobite rising under John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee ( Bonnie Dundee ) defeated William's forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689, but Dundee was slain in the fighting, and the army was soon defeated at the Battle of Dunkeld.

Eight years later, after William's death in 1120, a much more momentous union was made between Henry's daughter, ( the former Empress ) Matilda and Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet, which eventually resulted in the union of the two realms under the Plantagenet Kings.

To William's relief, Monmouth was defeated, captured and executed, but both he and Mary were dismayed by James's subsequent actions.

After the death of King William II of Sicily his cousin Tancred of Lecce had seized power and had been crowned early in 1190 as King Tancred I of Sicily, although the legal heir was William's aunt Constance, wife of the new Emperor Henry VI.

Tancred had imprisoned William's widow, Queen Joan, who was Richard's sister, and did not give her the money she had inherited in William's will.

Biko was born in King William's Town, in the present-day Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

He was banned by the apartheid regime in February 1973, meaning that he was not allowed to speak to more than one person at a time nor to speak in public, was restricted to the King William's Town magisterial district, and could not write publicly or speak with the media.

Stephen valued William's loyalty sufficiently to agree to exchange Sherborne Castle for his safe release — this was one of the few instances where Stephen was prepared to give up a castle to ransom one his men.

This reuniting was revealed in a BBC Four sixty minute documentary on William's work, The Man Behind The Masquerade on December 2 2009, beginning with Masquerade and ending with an exhibition of the best 18 pieces of his art from the last thirty years at London's Portal Gallery, which had first exhibited his work in the 1970s.

He has been known to take over in William's absence and is his best friend.