Wednesday 🕊️ 8 December ☃️🎄🍁👼🏻🌠🌌👸🏻 2021 Immaculate Conception 👸🏻🇻🇦💖
Good morning 🌄 my beloved 💖Granny and Cabbage🍯🏔️🏡 and Gary Supreme Governor of the Church ⛪ of England 🦁🏴👑🦄 Your Royal Highness Duke of Lancaster 🦁🏴🌹 👑🦄 Great Master of the Order of the Garter 🦁🏴👑🦄 Your Majesty HM Queen Elizabeth II 🦁🏴👑🦄 and my dear friend 💖and Daddy 💖 @Charlesprinceofwales🐉 🏴👑🐉and my dearest friend 💖 and Mama 💖 @hrhcamilladuchessofcornwall🦁〓〓👑🐗 and my dealings 🍯 friends 💖 @dofcambridge🦁🏴👑🦄 Kate and Duchess of Sussex 🦁🏴👑🦄 @meghanmarkleoffcial🦁🏴👑🦄and my cherished 💖 brothers @princewilliamroyal🦁🏴👑🦄 and @princeharryofengland🦁🏴👑🦄 and my dears 💖 cousins @arthurchatto🦁🏴👑🦄 and @samchatto🦁🏴👑🦄, @princesseugenieofyork🦁🏴🌼 👑🦄and @princessbeatrice🦁🏴👑🦄, @cee_t🦁🏴👑🦄 and @peterphillips🦁🏴👑🦄, @zaratindall🦁🏴👑🦄🏇🏻🏆🥇 and my dear aunt 💖 @anneprincessroyal🦁🏴👑🦄 and my dears friends💖 Your Eminences Archbishop of Canterbury 🦁🏴👑🦄⛪🇻🇦 @justinwelby and Archbishop of Westminster 🦁🏴👑🦄⛪🇻🇦@vincentnichols and Archbishop of Quebec💙👑⚜️⛪🇻🇦 and @Pontifex Francis🇻🇦🇦🇷 and my dears friends 💖 Right Honourable Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 🦁🏴👑🦄 @borisjohnsonuk and Major🦁🏴👑🦄 @sadiqkhan,
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J would like to talk you the story of the Duchy of Milan🟨👑🦅 was a region of Milan that became extremely important financially and politically. It was the great power of the north of Italy during the Middle Ages.
The territory of Milan expanded under the reign of the first Duke of Milan ⬜ 👑🐍 , Gian Galeazzo Visconti, in 1385 with the annexation of Verona, Vicenza, Padua, Pisa, Persua and Bologna. The Duchy of Milan was created in 1395 when Galeazzo Visconti⬜👑🐍 bought a diploma from King Wenceslaus for 1,000 florins giving him the title of Duke of Milan - a client state within the Holy Roman Empire which included 26 towns and spanned from the hills of Montferrat to the Lagoons of Venice.
When the Visconti dynasty ceased to exist with the death of Filippo Maria 🌹 in 1447, Milan was declared the Ambrosian Republic until 1450 when Francesco Sforza🟨👑🦅 conquered the city and the House of Sforza🟨👑🦅 succeeded the Visconti. Almost immediately, Francesco Sforza🟨👑🦅 , mercenary leader who had fought often for Milan, was proclaimed Duke with his marriage to Filippo Maria's illegitimate daughter Bianca Maria Visconti ⬜👑🐍 tying him to the title. His reign was known as moderate and modernising, making his court a centre of Renaissance thought, and bringing to the city many buildings which still stand today, founding the Ospedale Maggiore, restoring the Palazzo dell'Arengo🟨👑🦅🏰⛲ and building the Naviglio d'Adda🏞️ , a canal to bypass the rapids on the Adda River. This work was continued by Ludovico Maria Sforza 🟨👑🦅 (the fourth son of Francesco I Sforza 🟨👑🦅 and Duke of Milan 🟨👑🦅 between 1494 and 1499). He was a patron of Leonardo👨🏻🎨 da Vinci and other renowned artists, inviting them to paint in Milan.
Milan was conquered by the King of France👼🏻 🇲🇫👑⚜️👼🏻 Louis XII🤴🏻 in 1499 and claimed the Duchy for himself (his grandmother had been a member of the Visconti family👨👩👦 ⬜👑🐍 ). The French👼🏻🇲🇫👑⚜️👼🏻 maintained power in Milan until 1529, with a short break between 1512 and 1515 when the Swiss🇨🇭👑 defeated the French 👼🏻🇲🇫👑⚜️👼🏻 at the Battle of Novara. In 1515, Francis I invaded the area again, but The French were defeated by Spanish 🇪🇦👑 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Milan 🟨👑🦅 was made part of Habsburg Spain🇪🇦👑 . Francesco II Sforza, the last of the Sforza line was appointed its duke, always under Spanish🇪🇦👑 control, fighting at the Battle of Bicocca on the side of the emperor, but in 1526 changed sides, joining French, Papal🇻🇦 and Florentine forces in the League of Conac, aiming to drive Charles from Italy, and ending up besieged in Sforza castle.
Francesco II Sforza 🟨👑🦅 died without any heirs in 1535 and the Duchy of Milan🟨👑🦅 became part of the Spanish Empire, although the French 👼🏻🇲🇫👑⚜️ 👼🏻 claimed the Duchy, leading to more wars between the Spanish and French. In 1556, Charles V 🇪🇦👑 abdicated in favour of his son Philip II🇪🇦👑 .
From 1540 until 1714, the Kings of Spain🇪🇦👑 dominated the Duchy of Milan 🟨👑🦅 and the city of Milan 🟨👑🦅🏰⛲⛪🇻🇦🏞️ 💖 was considered a provincial capital.
The actual Dukes of Milan are King of Spain Felipe🇪🇦👑 and Queen of Spain Letizia🇪🇦👑
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By your friend @royalhonourguardoflilobeth🦁🏴👑🦄🇪🇦👑🦁🇮🇹👑🦁 💂🏻♂️ Mark Lifelon Windsor 🦁🏴👑🦄
