Queen Mary Has Unique Distinction
MOTHER OF TWO KINGS. Queen Mary is the .first English Queen to be the wife of one King and the mother of two since Eleanor ot Aquitaine, wife of King Henry IL, 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 Aujou, 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 tlied in 1183. Two others succeeded their father in succession as Richrd 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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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 11
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162Queen Mary Has Unique Distinction Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 11
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