A king-elect who was in no hurry to sit on the throne and took his own, sweet time

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For snow Scotland has 421 words.
Examples of them would be skelf, sneesl, spitters, feefle, flindrikin and many more.

On this day in history, November 16

1272 While on the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King Edward I of England, but does not return to England for nearly two years to take up the throne.

1855 Explorer David Livingstone reaches the Victoria Falls and names it after his queen.

1855 Pretoria is chosen as the capital of the ZAR, but the seat of the government remains in Potchefstroom until 1860.

1894 The Turks massacre 6 000 Armenians in Kurdistan.

1900 The Boer War Battle of Sprinkaansnek is fought.

1938 LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is first synthesised by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann.

1948 Operation Magic Carpet begins as the first Jews are flown from Yemen to Israel.

1988 Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto’s PPP party wins the first free Pakistani elections in 11 years.

1989 President FW de Klerk announces the abandonment of the Separate Amenities Act, opening the country’s beaches to all races.

1990 Pop group Milli Vanilli is stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not actually sing on the Girl You Know It’s True album. It was lip synching.

2015 The largest diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1 111 carat stone, is found in the Karowe mine, in Botswana.

2017 Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for a record $450.3 million.

2018 A lift in Chicago building falls 84 floors when the cable breaks. Miraculously all six people survive unharmed.

2019 Britain’s Prince Andrew denies admits in a BBC interview that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl connected to his friend and sex offender, Jeffery Epstein, but most say his version of events was ‘unconvincing’. Buckingham Palace is not amused and almost six years to the day, in 2025, his brother, now the king, decides enough damage has been done and that clear steps need to be taken to preserve the family's reputation. Andrew, 65, is evicted from his sprawling home at the Royal Lodge and strip of all royal honours and titles and is effectively exiled from Royal life, to be known only as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, not as a prince. His daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, are allowed to retain their titles. 

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