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This diarist's shorthand writings were first deciphered in 1819, over a century after his death
He served as a naval administrator
His account of the Great Fire of London is one of our best contemporay sources of the event
23 April, 1248
Order of the Garter insituted
Edward III's famous order of chivarly modelled after a similar French chivalric order of knights
This king abdicated the throne on 11 December, 1936, before he had officially been crowned
He abdicated in order to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee