MOTHER OF TWO KINGS
Queen Mary Has Unique Distinction. Queen Mary is the first English Queen to be the wile of one King' and the mother of two since Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of King Henry 11., states an English writer. Queen Eleanor was actually the wife of two Kings and the mother of three. Her first husband was Louis VII. of France, and after this marriage was annulled she married Henry of Anjou, who subsequently reigned in England from 1154 to 1189. The eldest of the five sons to survive infancy, Henry, was crowned joint King- with his father in 1170, but died In 1183. Two others succeeded their father in successibn, as Richard I. and John. Queen Eleanor died at the age of 82 in 1202, three years after John’s accession. King Charles I.’s wife, Queen Henrietta Maria, had two sons who became King, Charles 11. and James 11., but she died in 1669 during the reign of the former.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 330, 11 January 1937, Page 7
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162MOTHER OF TWO KINGS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 330, 11 January 1937, Page 7
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