Edward, Prince of Wales, in army uniform Bartholomew Fair By Thomas Savery Esquire F

By Thomas Savery Esquire F

His 53 year reign was the longest of all of the Medicis but saw a decline in Tuscany's power

Cosimo III de' Medici (1642-1723) was the sixth Grand Duke of Tuscany

It was also famous for being the location of one of the few cases of known regicide in Britain - on the 15th April 975

People fishing in Peerless Pool

Edward, Prince of Wales, in army uniform Bartholomew Fair By Thomas Savery Esquire FEdward, Prince of Wales, in army uniform, 1920s(?). Edward served in the Grenadier Guards during World War I. He became king when his father, George V, died in 1936, but abdicated in order to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, thus heading off an impending constitutional crisis.