Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and from 1 May 1876 the first Empress of India until her death. Her reign as Queen lasted 63 years and seven months, longer than that of any other British monarch to date. The period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era.
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Nero

Nero (AD 37-68), fifth emperor of Rome and the last of the Julio-Claudian line.

Born Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus on December 15, 37, at Antium and originally named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Nero was the son of the consul Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (died about 40) and Agrippina the Younger, great-granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. In 49 Agrippina married her uncle, Emperor Claudius I, and the following year she persuaded him to adopt her son, whose name was then changed. Later, Claudius married Nero to his daughter Octavia and marked him out for succession, bypassing his own son, Britannicus. On Claudius’s death (54), the Praetorian Guards, under their prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus, Agrippina’s agent, declared Nero emperor at the age of 17.
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James I

James I (10 December 1394 – 21 February 1437) was nominal King of Scots from 4 April 1406, and reigning King of Scots from May 1424 until 21 February 1437.
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Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later The Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the British dominions, and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936, following the death of his father, George V, until his abdication on 11 December 1936. He was the second monarch of the House of Windsor, his father having changed the name of the royal house from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1917.
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Swedish Kristina Augusta

Christina (Swedish: Kristina Augusta) (18 December [O.S. 8 December] 1626 – 19 April 1689), later known as Christina Alexandra and sometimes Countess Dohna, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive, at the age of six she succeeded her father on the throne of Sweden upon his death at the Battle of Lützen in the Thirty Years’ War.
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Henry VI

Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England 1422–1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then 1470–1471, and a claimant to the kingdom of France 1422–1453.
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Ferdinand IV

Ferdinand IV, El Emplazado or “the Summoned,” (December 6, 1285 – September 7, 1312) was a king of Castile (1295 - 1312). He was a son of Sancho El Bravo and his wife Maria de Molina.
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Alfonso X

Alfonso X (November 23, 1221, Toledo, Spain – April 4, 1284, Seville, Spain) was a Castilian monarch who ruled as the King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1252 until his death. He also was elected King of the Germans (formally King of the Romans) in 1257, though the Papacy prevented his confirmation. He established Castilian as a language of higher learning, founded universities (Salamanca and Toledo) and earned his nicknames “el Sabio” (”the Wise” or “the Learned”) and “el Astrólogo” (”the Astronomer”) through his own prolific writings, including Galician-Portuguese poetry.
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Austria Anne of

Anne of Austria (September 22, 1601 - January 20, 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Navarre and regent for her son, Louis XIV of France. During her regency (1643–1651) Cardinal Mazarin served as France’s chief minister. She is one of the central figures in Alexandre Dumas’s novel, The Three Musketeers.
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Alfonso XII

Alfonso XII (born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo) (Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885) was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup d’état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.
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