The natural range of the giant sequoia is a narrow band along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada range, California, USA. The tree grows at high altitudes between 5,000 to 8,000 ft and only occurs naturally in about 65 to 75 disjoint groves (depending on the definition of a grove) with a total area of 36,000 acres.
Marie Antoinette was born in 1755 and was the daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa. Marie Antoinette married King Louis XVI of France. In 1793, she and her husband were beheaded after the fall of the Bastille.
Royal Family - Sophie, Countess of Wessex. The Countess of Wessex was born Sophie Rhys-Jones in Oxford in 20 January 1965. She has royal ancestry as a descendant of Henry II of France, and both Welsh and Scottish ancestry.