Example sentences of "come [prep] the throne in " in BNC.
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| 1 | All such links between the English church and the Protestant churches in Europe had quickly disappeared , of course , once Mary had come to the throne in 1553 and had set about reuniting England to Rome . |
| 2 | Few English monarchs have come to the throne in as strong a position as did James II . |
| 3 | The company holds the distinction of having catered for every Coronation Banquet since George III came to the throne in 1760 . |
| 4 | By the time Robert III came to the throne in 1390 , Dundonald Castle was probably about 250 years old and below the standard required for a royal residence ; in any case , it was too far removed from the principal seats of government and power , such as Edinburgh and Stirling , to be a permanent royal household . |
| 5 | Kaiser Wilhelm II came to the throne in 1888 and , after forcing the ageing Chancellor to retire , took his belligerence several steps further by bolstering the German military , by promoting the growth of pan-Germanism and by demoting and suppressing the voice and interests of the non-German peoples within the borders of the Reich . |
| 6 | James I , when he came to the throne in 1603 , according to Isaacson ‘ admired him beyond all other divines , not only for his transcendent gift in preaching , but for his excellency and solidity in all kinds of learning , selecting him as his choicest instrument , to vindicate his regality against his foul-mouthed adversaries ’ . |
| 7 | The flourishing of more liberal trends during the latter part of the war and the early 1920s seemed to mark a shift from autocratic , oligarchic rule to representative party politics , giving the period the title ‘ Taishó democracy ’ , after the Taishó emperor who came to the throne in 1912 . |
| 8 | Even when Victoria came to the throne in 1837 only five places in England and Wales contained more than 100,000 people . |
| 9 | And there was a Dutch historian , Reneer in London , who used to give lectures in which he made a point of not knowing any dates , and he would say ‘ The Armada came in ’ , and then there 'd be a little row of girls who 'd call out ‘ Fifteen eighty-eight ’ , and then he 'd say ‘ James the First came to the throne in ’ , and they would call out ‘ Sixteen oh three . ’ |
| 10 | Something permanent had clearly been created in Virginia and , shortly after coming to the throne in 1625 , Charles I did what he could to stabilize the situation by declaring it a royal colony and taking into his own hands the power to appoint the governor . |
| 11 | In the five years since coming to the throne in 1553 , Mary had vented her hatred of Protestantism upon her subjects and had tried — against their will — to force the clock back . |