Great Seal of the Realm
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The Great Seal of the Realm is a seal that is used in the United Kingdom to symbolise the sovereign's approval of state documents, today given on the advice of the government of the day. It is also kn
The Great Seal of King John
Depiction of the Great Seal of the Realm (Charles I) on a 17th-century funerary monument (St Mary Magdalene's Church, Croome D'Abitot, Worcestershire)
Seal charter Cathedral Saint Alban 1900
Reverse of the Great Seal of the Realm 1953
James II of England
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James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from February 1685 until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Catholic monarch of Eng
Great Seal of the Realm
…Baron of the Court of Exchequer in England, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. In 1688, while attempting to flee to France during the Glorious Revolution, James II allegedly attempted to destroy his Great Seal by throwing it into the River Thames, in the hope that the machinery of government would cease to function…
Reception of James and his brother Charles in Bruges on 2 October 1656
James and Anne Hyde in the 1660s, by Sir Peter Lely
Wedding suit of James II, 1673, in the Victoria and Albert Museum