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Look up: regency

  1. regency
    [adj] - of or relating to a regency 2. [adj] - (England) of or relating to or characteristic of the style (especially the style of furniture) favored during the Regency (1811-1820) 3. [n] - the period of time during which a regent governs 4. [n] - (England) the period from 1811-18...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Regency
    In Britain, the years 1811-20 during which George IV (then Prince of Wales) acted as regent for his father noun ; plural Regencies (-s...z). [ CF. French régence , Late Latin regentia . See Regent , adjective ] 1. The office of ruler; rule; authority; government. 2. Es...
    Found on
    http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/39

  3. Regency
    adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the style (especially the style of furniture) favored during the Regency (1811-1820)
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  4. regency
    noun the office of a regent
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Regency
    noun the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III`s periods of insanity
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Regency
    • (a.) The office of ruler; rule; authority; government. • (a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king`s minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability. • (a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. regency
    (from the article `Spain`) ...bones of Bourbon administrative centralism and resulted in the explicit formulation of a liberal ideology that was to be a dynamic factor in ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/26

  8. Regency
    Neoclassical style of British furniture popular during the first half of the 1800's. This style spawned adaptations and true reproductions of Greek and roman furniture and coincided with Directories and Empire styles in France.
    Found on http://www.artisansofthevalley.com/comm_

  9. Regency
    A loose description of the taste of grandiose and usually gilded silver made from c.1790 to c.1820 - the period of the Prince Regent's influential patronage to the London silver trade, and especially Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. The actual Regency lasted from 1811 to 1820 when George IV succeeded.
    Found on http://freespace.virgin.net/a.data/gloss

  10. Regency
    Regency, in British history, the period of the last nine years (1811–20) of the reign of George III, when the king's insanity had rendered him unfit to rule and the government was vested in the prince of Wales (later George IV) as regent. The period witnessed the end (1815) of the Napoleonic W...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0

  11. Regency
    In Britain, the years 1811–20 during which George IV (then Prince of Wales) acted as regent for his father George III, who was finally declared insane and unfit to govern in December 1810. The Regency was marked by the Prince Regent's turbulent private life, his dissolute public image, and the fashionable society he patronized. In 1795 Geo...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  12. Regency
    period from 1810-1820. George III went insane in 1810 and his son ruled as prince regent in his stead. George III died in 1820 and his son became George IV.
    Found on http://charlesdickenspage.com/glossary.h

  13. Regency
    (Indonesia) A `regency` (Indonesian: kabupaten) is a political subdivision of a province in Indonesia. The Indonesian term kabupaten is also sometimes translated as `district` or `municipality`. Regencies are divided into Subdistricts (Kecamatan). History: The English nam...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regency



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13 February 2012

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The fifth queen of Henry VIII was Catherine Howard. Her father was very poor, and Catherine lived mainly with Agnes, widow of the 2nd duke of Norfolk. Henry was evidently charmed by her and he was privately married to Catherine at Oatlands in July 1540. In November 1541 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer informed Henry that his queen's past life had not been stainless. After some denials the queen herself admitted that this was true; but denied that she had misconducted herself since her marriage. Some fresh information, however, very soon came to light showing that she had been unchaste since her marriage; a bill of attainder was passed through parliament, and on the 13th of February 1542 the queen was beheaded. read more

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