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Prince George of Wales
Prince George of Wales (George Alexander Louis, born 2013) is the eldest child of William and Catherine, Prince and Princess of Wales, second in line to the British throne, formerly styled Prince George of Cambridge.
Prince George, British Columbia
Prince George, British Columbia: largest city in northern BC at the Fraser-Nechako confluence, incorporated 1915, population 76,708 (2021). Regional service hub with forestry-based economy, rising housing costs, and Lheidli T'enneh origins.
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), cousin of Queen Victoria, commanded the British Army as Commander-in-Chief for 39 years (1856-1895), opposed Cardwell's reforms, and was succeeded by Lord Wolseley.
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902–1942), fourth son of George V, naval officer turned civil servant, husband of Princess Marina of Greece, killed in the 1942 Caithness Sunderland crash.
Prince George's County, Maryland
Prince George's County, Maryland: a Washington, D.C.-suburban county erected from Calvert and Charles counties in the 1690s, named for Prince George of Denmark; seat Upper Marlboro; 967,201 residents (2020), 60.7% Black, charter government since 1970.
Prince Gong
Prince Gong (恭亲王奕䜣), personal name Yixin, was a Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty, sixth son of the Daoguang Emperor, who headed negotiations with the Anglo-French forces and led the Zongli Yamen.
Prince Group
Prince Group, formally Prince Holding Group, is a Cambodian holding company the US Justice Department alleges was a transnational criminal organization running forced-labor scam compounds and cryptocurrency fraud.
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund, 1906–1947), eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, father of King Carl XVI Gustaf, killed in the 1947 Kastrup plane crash.
Prince Gustav Channel
Prince Gustav Channel is an Antarctic strait separating James Ross and Vega Islands from Trinity Peninsula, discovered by Nordenskjöld's 1901-04 Swedish expedition, named for the later King Gustav V, and opened to navigation after its ice shelf collapsed in 1995.
Prince Hall
Prince Hall (c. 1735-1807) was a free Black Bostonian abolitionist who founded African Lodge No. 459 in 1775-1784, the origin of Prince Hall Freemasonry, the oldest continuously active African American organization.
Prince Hall Freemasonry
Prince Hall Freemasonry, also known as Prince Hall Masonry, is the predominantly African American branch of Freemasonry, begun in Boston in 1775 by Prince Hall and fourteen other free Black men.
Prince Hamlet
Prince Hamlet, protagonist of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (c. 1600–01): a Danish prince who feigns madness and delays revenge on Claudius, surviving in three early texts (Q1, Q2, Folio) and endless adaptations.
Prince Harald Coast
Prince Harald Coast (Prins Harald Kyst), part of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, along Lützow-Holm Bay between 34°E and 40°E; discovered by air in 1937 by the Lars Christensen Expedition and named for the infant Norwegian prince.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (Henry Charles Albert David, born 1984), British prince, sixth in line to the throne; former Apache pilot, Invictus Games founder, married Meghan Markle 2018, stepped back as working royal in 2020.
Prince Hashem Bird Garden
Prince Hashem Bird Garden (حديقة الأمير هاشم للطيور) is a public bird park in Shmeisani, Amman, Jordan, opened by the Greater Amman Municipality in 1979 on 10 dunums; closed Tuesdays, admission 20 piasters.
Prince Hashim bin Hussein (هاشم بن الحسين)
Prince Hashim bin Hussein (هاشم بن الحسين), born 1981, is the youngest son of King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan, brother of King Abdullah II, a Sandhurst- and Georgetown-educated former special operations colonel, and Royal Court chief chamberlain from 2017.
Prince Hassan bin Talal (الحسن بن طلال)
Prince El Hassan bin Talal (الحسن بن طلال), born 1947, is a Hashemite prince of Jordan, Crown Prince 1965–1999 until King Hussein replaced him with Abdullah II; interfaith advocate, author, and founder of Jordanian scientific institutions.
Prince Henry of Battenberg
Prince Henry of Battenberg, born 1858, was a German prince who married Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter, in 1885 and died of fever during the 1895–96 Ashanti expedition.
Prince Henry of Prussia (1862–1929)
Prince Heinrich of Prussia (Prinz Heinrich von Preußen), 1862–1929, Grand Admiral, younger brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II; East Asia Squadron and Tsingtao commander, High Seas Fleet chief 1906–09, Baltic commander in World War I.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Prince Henry the Navigator (Infante Dom Henrique, 1394–1460), Portuguese prince, Duke of Viseu and head of the Order of Christ, patron of African voyages that rounded Cape Bojador; not a navigator himself, and the Sagres navigation school is a myth.
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900–1974), third son of King George V, British prince and soldier with the 10th Royal Hussars, and the only royal to serve as Governor-General of Australia, 1945–1947.
Prince Hisahito of Akishino
Prince Hisahito of Akishino (悠仁), born 2006, is the only son of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, second in line to Japan's throne, and the only male of his imperial generation.
Prince Hridayendra of Nepal
Hridayendra Shah is a member of the former royal family of Nepal, grandson of former King Gyanendra. Born in 2002, he studied in Boston after leaving Nepal in 2008.
Prince Igor (Князь Игорь)
Prince Igor (Князь Игорь), Borodin's only opera, based on The Tale of Igor's Campaign; unfinished at his 1887 death, completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov, premiered 1890 at the Mariinsky, famous for the Polovtsian Dances.
Prince Indah
Prince Indah is the stage name of Evance Ochieng Owino, a Kenyan Ohangla and Afro-Rhumba singer from Siaya County mentored by his uncle Emma Jalamo.
Prince Jacques of Bourbon-Parma
Prince Jacques of Bourbon-Parma (1922–1964), French prince of the House of Bourbon-Parma, great-grandson of Christian IX of Denmark, Royal Norwegian Air Force pilot trainee in Canada, later Danish airline pilot, racing driver, husband of Birgitte von Holstein-Ledreborg.
Prince Joachim of Denmark
Prince Joachim of Denmark (born 1969), younger son of Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik, Danish Army brigadier general, defence industry attaché in Washington D.C. since 2023, husband of Princess Marie, father of four counts and countess of Monpezat.
Prince Joachim of Prussia
Prince Joachim Franz Humbert of Prussia (1890–1920), youngest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria; cavalry officer wounded at the Masurian Lakes; failed candidate for the Irish, Lithuanian, and Georgian thrones; died by suicide aged 29.
Prince John of the United Kingdom
Prince John (John Charles Francis, 1905-1919), youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, the "Lost Prince": diagnosed with epilepsy in 1909, secluded at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate from 1916, died there aged 13 after a severe seizure.
Prince Johnson
Prince Yormie Johnson (1952-2024), Liberian warlord and INPFL founder who videotaped the torture of President Samuel Doe in 1990, later Nimba County senator, US-sanctioned, never prosecuted.