Edward, Prince of Wales, in army uniform Bartholomew Fair His 53 year reign was

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

People fishing in Peerless Pool

Sharp Sculp" John Hunter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767

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

Three-quarter length seated portrait of Sir William Fairbairn

Edward, Prince of Wales, in army uniform Bartholomew Fair His 53 year reign wasEdward, 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.