Curated playlist
British people of German descent
- William, Prince of WalesAt 9:03 pm on the 21st of June 1982, William Arthur Philip Louis was born at St Mary's Hospital in London. He was the first direct heir to the British throne to be born in a hospital. Today he is William, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to…
- Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson's earliest recorded ambition was to be "world king". He was born on the 19th of June 1964 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He is one of only two British prime ministers to have been an American citizen. Supporters praise…
- Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria drove the same road the day after a gun failed to fire at her, hoping to draw a second shot.
- Edward VIIIEdward VIII, King of the United Kingdom, ended his reign with a voice on the radio. On the night of the 11th of December 1936 he spoke to listeners around the world. He told them he had found it "impossible to carry the heavy burden of…
- George VIGeorge VI, known to his family as Bertie, wrote an anguished line in his diary about the day before his brother gave up the crown. He had gone to London to tell his mother, Queen Mary, what had happened. His entry read: "When I told her…
- Charles IIICharles III was crowned at Westminster Abbey on the 6th of May 2023, in a ceremony planned for many years under the code name Operation Golden Orb. Reports before the day promised a coronation shorter, smaller and less expensive than his…
- Audrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn gave underground concerts to raise money for the Dutch resistance. She was a teenager in occupied Arnhem.
- Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born on a dining room table. The date was the 10th of June 1921, and the place was Mon Repos, a villa on the Greek island of Corfu. Before he turned two, he was carried out of Greece in a fruit box. He…
- George VNear the end of his life in January 1936, King George V of the United Kingdom asked his secretary a question. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin later described the scene. Each time the dying king regained consciousness, he had some kind…
- Mary of TeckMary of Teck was born on the 26th of May 1867 at Kensington Palace in London, in the very room where Queen Victoria had been born 48 years and two days earlier. Victoria came to see the baby and wrote that she was "a very fine one, with…
- Muzio ClementiBeethoven kept a volume of Muzio Clementi's sonatas on his music stand. His students also shaped Chopin and Liszt.