Презентация на тему "Some interesting facts about british monarch"

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  Some interesting facts about British monarch

  Made by Mark Shtange Form – 7

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  Only two British monarchs have reigned more than once - King Henry VI and King Edward IV. Henry VI reigned from 1422-1461 and 1470-1471 and Edward IV reigned from 1461-1470 and 1471-1483.

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  King Edward the Confessor was the first English monarch to be declared a saint. He was England's patronsaint until 1348.

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  The last British monarch to lead troops into battle was King George II at the Battle of Dettingen against the French in 1743.

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  British monarchs wear an "imperial" style of crown consisting of a circlet surmounted by arches. This style was introduced by King Henry IV in 1399.

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  England's youngest ever monarch was King Henry VI who came to the Throne in 1422 aged just 6 months.

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  England's shortest-reigning monarch was Queen Jane (Lady Jane Grey), the cousin and wife of King Edward VI, who reigned for just 9 days in 1554.

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  King Henry VIII weighed 21 stones (133kgs in European measures).

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  To build up England's shipping capacity - and its seafarers - Queen Elizabeth I made it compulsory for the peopleof England to eat fish on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

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  England has had many gay monarchs: Edward II, Richard II, Richard the Lionheart, William Rufus.

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  In the mid-1640s, England's self-proclaimed Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins, probably executed around 100 suspected witches.

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