Edward VII mb-artist Hendrick_Danckerts Nautilus ambiguus fig

Nautilus ambiguus fig

Ships off the Crimean coast

intended for Britannia

Election in Covent Garden

Plate 2 from the monograph Cerebri Anatome by Thomas Willis FRS (London

Edward VII mb-artist Hendrick_Danckerts Nautilus ambiguus figEdward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1901, (1932). Before his accession to the throne in 1901, Edward (1841 1910) held the title of Prince of Wales, and has the distinction of having been heir apparent to the throne longer than anyone in English or British history. His reign saw the first official recognition of the office of the Prime Minister in 1905. He was the first British monarch of the House of Saxe Coburg Gotha, which was renamed