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THE SEVENTH FORM

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Unit 3

Me and My World

I.                  Grammar. Open the brackets to complete the story:

Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent (bear)¹ at Kensington Palace in London in 1819. Victoria’s father, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn, (be)² the fourth son of King George III. The Duke of Kent and Strathearn, like many other sons of George III, (not marry)³ during his youth. The eldest son, the Prince of Wales (the future King George IV), did marry, but (have)⁴ only a daughter, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. When she (die)⁵ in 1817, the remaining unmarried sons of King George III scrambled (marry)⁶ and fathered children to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and Strathearn (marry)⁷ Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the sister of Princess Charlotte’s widower Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield and widow of Karl, Prince of Leiningen. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on 24^th May, 1819. Although christened Alexandrina Victoria, from birth she formally (style)⁸ Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent, but (call)⁹ Drina within the family. Princess Victoria’s father died of pneumonia eight months after she was born. Princess Victoria’s uncle, the Prince of Wales, (inherit)¹⁰ the Crown, (become)¹¹ King George IV.