Queen Victoria

2022 - 9 - 20

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Why does this university want to bin Queen Victoria? (Spectator.co.uk)

Spare a thought for New Zealand's Victoria university. For years now, this Kiwi institution of higher learning has been pulling out all the stops to rid ...

In the United States, there’s Cornell university in upstate New York, which is one of the eight members of the venerable Ivy League, and Cornell college in Iowa, which most certainly is not. Let’s hear it for the University of Jacinda. Come to think of it, five of the colleges at Oxford — the Oxford, that is — also happen to have identical names to ones at Cambridge. It wants to be known as university of Wellington, after the capital city in which most of its 22,000 students live. The same goes for some of its new signage. The death of Queen Elizabeth — and the tidal wave of warm Antipodean feel it has brought about — can only have thrown yet another spanner in the works.

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Queen Elizabeth II may have made it to 96 — but these other royals ... (ABC News)

The death of King Edward II is also up for debate. His poor leadership, however, is not. The official royal website declares Edward II "had few of the qualities ...

He responded that the pregnancy was "of the greatest importance for the cause of religion and the welfare of our realm". In 1917, it was decided the ailing heir, Alexei Nikolaevich, was unable to take over. The official royal website declares Edward II "had few of the qualities" that make a successful king. Two of their sons were believed to have haemophilia. She wrote to her husband King Philip II to share the news. King George VI (father of Queen Elizabeth II) was a heavy smoker, and the habit led to his untimely death at the age of 56. It was even baked into a pie for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. The British were accused of defiling the royal blood of Spain, and the marriage was discredited. and supposedly all because of one man's uncontained appetite for an ancient fish. The death of King Edward II is also up for debate. Between this episode and his death in 1820, King George III lost both the American colonies and his mental faculties (portrayed in the 1994 British film, The Madness of King George). Instead, she developed a fever — potentially a sign of the circulating influenza — and died a few months later.

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