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Bal Thackeray
Indian politician
He got his surname Thackeray from his father Keshav who was an admirer of India-born British writer William Makepeace Thackeray, his father Keshav later changed his surname from Panvelkar to "Thackeray" Bal was the eldest of eight siblings, three among them being brothers Shrikant Thackeray (father of Raj Thackeray) and Ramesh Thackeray, and five sisters (Sanjeevani Karandikar, Prabhavati (Pama) Tipnis, Malati (Sudha) Sule, Sarla Gadkari and Susheela Gupte).
William Makepeace Thackeray
He was buried on 29 December at Kensal Green Cemetery, and a memorial bust sculpted by Marochetti can be found in Westminster Abbey.
Carlo Marochetti
French sculptor
A public campaign led to a bronze copy being made which was eventually, in 1860, erected in front of the Palace of Westminster on the orders of Prince Albert.
subject = Albert, Prince Consort
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Indian independence activist (1856-1920)
When World War I started in August of that year, Tilak cabled the King-Emperor George V of his support and turned his oratory to find new recruits for war efforts.
George V
His father was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and his mother was the eldest daughter of King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark.
Bal Thackeray
Indian politician
Thackeray criticised the opposition and said "Who is [Congress president and Leader of the Opposition] Sonia Gandhi to object to the portrait? What relation does she have with the country? How much does she know about the history and culture of India?".
Bal Thackeray
Indian politician
Thackeray is satirised in Salman Rushdie's 1995 novel '' The Moor's Last Sigh'' as 'Raman Fielding'.
Salman Rushdie
He was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999. In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth IIknighted him for his services to literature.
Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms (born 1926)
During her grandfather's reign, Elizabeth was third in the line of succession to the British throne, behind her uncle Edward and her father.
When her grandfather died in 1936 and her uncle succeeded as Edward VIII, she became second in line to the throne, after her father. Later that year, Edward abdicated, after his proposed marriage to divorced socialiteWallis Simpson provoked a constitutional crisis.
