Image 1 — HM King Manuel II and Queen Dowager Amélie of Portugal photographed in the Lisbon Palace, 1910.
Image 2 — HM King Manuel II and Queen Dowager Amélie of Portugal photographed in the Lisbon Palace, 1910.

HM King Manuel II and Queen Dowager Amélie of Portugal photographed in the Lisbon Palace, 1910.

Later that year, the Royal Family were forced into exile by Republican revolutionaries but Manuel refused to formally abdicate the Portuguese throne. In 1913, he married Princess Augusta Viktoria of Hohenzollern and died in London in 1932.

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On this day in 1854, King Frederik VII ended the Royal monopoly over the Dannebrog, the Danish national flag.

Previously, only the Royal family and the Royal Danish navy could fly the Dannebrog.

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Madeleine de Valois, wife of James V King of Scots and daughter of King Francis I of France, died on this day in 1537 at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Madeleine is known as 'the Summer Queen' in Scots history.

Married in Paris, the Queen died barely two months after her arrival in Edinburgh and just a month before her 17th birthday.

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Queen Victoria with her recently widowed daughter, The Kaiserin Friedrich, in 1889. The Queen holds a photograph of Friedrich III in her hands.

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King James II&VII defeated the rebel army of the Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II and claimant to the throne, at the battle of Sedgemoor on this day in 1685.

Monmouth was executed nine days later.

President Woodrow Wilson with HM King George V at Buckingham Palace, December 1918. Wilson was the first serving US President to visit the UK since independence.

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Archduke Otto Von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, died on this day in 2011.

A career diplomat, the Archduke was an elected member of the European Parliament for many years.

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Colourised photograph from 1916 of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, wearing Bulgarian Field General's uniform, with Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, in Prussian Field General's uniform.

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HRH The Duke of York, the future George V, holds his newborn son Prince Edward (David) the future Edward VIII, in 1894.

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Happy 33rd wedding anniversary to their Serene Highnesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Liechtenstein.

Princess Sophie, formerly Duchess Sophie in Bavaria, is second in the Jacobite line of succession.

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A colourised photograph from 1862 of Queen Victoria's five daughters with a bust of their late father, Prince Albert. Victoria's grief for her husband overwhelmed the whole family.

L-R; Vicky Crown Princess of Prussia, Helena, Alice, Louise and Beatrice (standing)

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HRH The Duke of Rothesay at the Thistle service in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.

The Most Noble and Most Ancient Order of the Thistle is Scotland's premier order of chivalry. There are at present 5 Royal Knights and Ladies of the Thistle, with 16 extra Knights and Ladies of the Thistle. King Charles III is Sovereign Knight.

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One of the alleged death masks of Mary Queen of Scots. The mask is displayed at Lennoxlove House, the seat of the Dukes of Hamilton.

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Colourised photo of King Constantine I of the Hellenes, posing with portrait painter Philip de Lászlo in the Royal Palace of Athens, 1914.

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