Prince Philip born |
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10 June 1921 |
Princess Elizabeth born |
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21 April 1926 |
Princess Margaret born |
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21 August 1930 |
George V dies |
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20 January 1936 |
Edward VIII abdicates |
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11 December 1936 |
Princess Alexandra born |
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25 December 1936 |
George VI's coronation |
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12 May 1937 |
Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson at Chateau de Candé, near Tours, France |
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3 June 1937 |
Princess Elizabeth marries Prince Philip |
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20 November 1947 |
Prince Charles born |
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14 November 1948 |
Princess Anne born |
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15 August 1950 |
George VI dies |
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6 February 1952 |
Queen Mary dies |
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24 March 1953 |
Elizabeth II's coronation |
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2 June 1953 |
Prince Charles created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester |
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26 July 1958 |
Prince Andrew born |
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19 February 1960 |
Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong–Jones |
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6 May 1960 |
David Armstrong–Jones (Viscount Linley) born |
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3 November 1961 |
Princess Alexandra (of Kent) marries the Hon. Angus Ogilvy |
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24 April 1963 |
Prince Edward born |
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10 March 1964 |
Lady Sarah Armstrong–Jones (later Chatto) born |
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1 May 1964 |
Prince Charles's investiture as Prince of Wales (Caernarfon Castle) |
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1 July 1969 |
Duke of Windsor dies in Paris |
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28 May 1972 |
Princess Anne marries Lieutenant Mark Phillips (Prince Charles's 25th birthday) |
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14 November 1973 |
Princess Anne and Mark Phillips survive an armed kidnap attempt in The Mall |
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20 March 1974 |
Prince Charles takes command of HMS Bronington |
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9 February 1976 |
Peter Phillips (the Queen's first grandchild) born |
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15 November 1977 |
Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon divorce |
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11 July 1978 |
Lord Mountbatten assassinated by the IRA |
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27 August 1979 |
Zara Phillips born |
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15 May 1981 |
Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer marry in St. Paul's Cathedral |
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29 July 1981 |
Prince William born |
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21 June 1982 |
Prince Harry born |
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15 September 1984 |
Duchess of Windsor dies in Paris |
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24 April 1986 |
Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson |
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23 July 1986 |
Princess Anne styled HRH The Princess Royal |
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13 June 1987 |
The Grand Knockout Tournament ("It's a Royal Knockout") |
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17 June 1987 |
Princess Beatrice (of York) born |
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8 August 1988 |
Princess Eugenie (of York) born |
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23 March 1990 |
Princess Anne and Mark Phillips divorce |
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23 April 1992 |
Windsor Castle fire |
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20 November 1992 |
The Queen makes her "annus horribilis" speech (at the Guildhall, London) |
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24 November 1992 |
Princess Anne marries Timothy Laurence |
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12 December 1992 |
Buckingham Palace open to the public for the first time |
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7 August 1993 |
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson (Duke and Duchess of York) divorce |
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30 May 1996 |
Charles and Diana divorce |
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28 August 1996 |
Princess Diana dies in a car crash in Paris |
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31 August 1997 |
Princess Diana's funeral (watched on TV by an estimated 32 million in the UK and 2.5 billion
worldwide – one of the biggest television audiences in history) |
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6 September 1997 |
Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys–Jones marry at Windsor Castle |
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19 June 1999 |
Princess Margaret dies |
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9 February 2002 |
Queen Mother dies, aged 101 |
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30 March 2002 |
Lady Louise Windsor (Prince Edward's first) born |
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8 November 2003 |
Sir Angus Ogilvy dies |
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26 December 2004 |
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker–Bowles marry |
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9 April 2005 |
James, Viscount Severn (Prince Edward's second child and only son, and the Queen's last
grandchild) born |
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17 December 2007 |
Peter Phillips marries Autumn Kelly |
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17 May 2008 |
Savannah Phillips (the Queen's first great–grandchild) born |
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29 December 2010 |
Prince William and Catherine (Kate) Middleton marry |
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29 April 2011 |
Zara Phillips marries rugby footballer Mike Tindall |
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30 July 2011 |
Prince George of Cambridge born |
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22 July 2013 |
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge born |
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2 May 2015 |
The Queen celebrates her Sapphire Jubilee (but in a very low–key way) |
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6 February 2017 |
Prince Louis of Cambridge born |
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23 April 2018 |
Prince Harry (Duke of Sussex) marries US actress Meghan Markle at St. George's Chapel, Windsor |
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19 May 2018 |
Princess Eugenie (of York) marries wine merchant Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor |
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12 October 2018 |
Prince Archie Harrison Mountbatten–Windsor (son of Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex) born |
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6 May 2019 |