1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

1309 – 26 May 1339 ) was the Queen of Poland ( 1333 – 1339 ), and the Princess of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

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Cover of Weird Tales ( May 1934 ) depicting Conan and Bêlit ( Fiction ) | Bêlit in Queen of the Black Coast, one of Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories.

In May 2010 Dartmouth joined the Matariki Network of Universities ( MNU ) together with Durham University ( UK ), Queen ’ s University ( Canada ), University of Otago ( New Zealand ), University of Tübingen ( Germany ), University of Western Australia ( Australia ) and Uppsala University ( Sweden ).

On 13 May, Dewar was nominated as First Minister, and was officially appointed by the Queen on 17 May at a ceremony in the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

After intervention by Burghley and Sir Walter Raleigh, Oxford was reconciled to the Queen and his two-year exile from court ended at the end of May, on condition of his guarantee of good behaviour.

Chelsy also accompanied Harry to the wedding of Harry's cousin, Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly in May 2008, where she was introduced to the Queen for the first time.

At about noon on 2 May 1997, Major officially returned his seals of office as Prime Minister to The Queen.

* 1947 – Brian May, English singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and author ( Queen and Smile )

Before 1961, May 24 was celebrated in Jamaica as Empire Day in honour of the birthday of Queen Victoria and her emancipation of slaves in Jamaica.

* 1903 – In the May coup d ' état, Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand ( Crna Ruka ) organization.

In this form, May Day may be best known for its tradition of dancing the maypole dance and crowning of the Queen of the May.

May Queen on village green, Melmerby, Cumbria | Melmerby

Traditional British May Day rites and celebrations include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen and celebrations involving a Maypole.

In May, the Sex Pistols achieved new heights of controversy ( and number two on the singles chart ) with " God Save the Queen ".

The, David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, was appointed by the Queen on 11 May 2010.

Meanwhile, among the many V. I. P. s who came to look were U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( 22 February 1962 ), Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom ( 6 March 1965 ), H. M. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ( 27 May 1965 ), H. R. H.

The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera ; the second is that the name comes from the Latin word iuniores, meaning " younger ones ," as opposed to maiores (" elders ") for which the preceding month May may be named ( Fasti VI. 1 – 88 ).

The month May was named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May.

The earliest May Day celebrations appeared in pre-Christian times, with the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, and the Walpurgis Night celebrations of the Germanic countries.

In an otherwise seemingly thorough account, Cicero makes no mention of Bona Dea's May festival, and claims the goddess ' cult as an aristocratic privilege from the first ; the impeccably patrician Clodius, Cicero's social superior by birth, is presented as an innately impious, low-class oaf, and his popularist policies as threats to Rome's moral and religious security.

In partnership with the goddess Brìghde, the Cailleach is seen as a seasonal deity or spirit, ruling the winter months between Samhainn ( 1 November or first day of winter ) and Bealltainn ( 1 May or first day of summer ), while Brìghde rules the summer months between Bealltainn and Samhainn.

Depending on local climate, the transfer of power between the winter goddess and the summer goddess is celebrated any time between Là Fhèill Brìghde ( 1 February ) at the earliest, Latha na Cailliche ( 25 March ), or Bealltainn ( 1 May ) at the latest, and the local festivals marking the arrival of the first signs of spring may be named after either the Cailleach or Brìghde.

The most important one was the Panathenaia in honor of the goddess Athena, a ritual procession carried out once a year in May and once every four years in July, in which the town presented a new veil ( peplos ) to the old wooden statue of Athena Poliada.

Aware of their suffering, on May 31, 552 AD, the goddess Benzaiten caused the island of Enoshima to arise from the bottom of the bay to serve as her abode.

In revolutionary France, the cap or bonnet rouge was first seen publicly in May 1790, at a festival in Troyes adorning a statue representing the nation, and at Lyon, on a lance carried by the goddess Libertas.

Some information exists for the ritual roles of the Portunalis in connexion with the cult of the god Quirinus and Volcanalis in connexion with the cult of the goddess Maia on the Kalends of May.

A squire in Januarie's court, called Damyan, falls in love with May and writes a letter to her confessing his desires, the goddess Venus ' hurt him with hire brond ' at the wedding party-meaning she set his heart on fire with love.

On the three days of her May festival, they offered sacrifices and chanted secretly inside the temple of the goddess at her lucus the Carmen Arvale, the exact meaning of which was no longer understood in later times.

On the first day of May, the Lares Praestites were honored as protectors of the city, and the flamen of Vulcan sacrificed a pregnant sow to Maia, a customary offering to an earth goddess that reiterates the link between Vulcan and Maia in the archaic prayer formula.

On May 15, the Ides, Mercury was honored as a patron of merchants and increaser of profit ( through an etymological connection with merx, merces, " goods, merchandise "), another possible connection with Maia his mother as a goddess who promoted growth.

It was discovered by Robert Luther on May 4, 1886 in Düsseldorf and was named after Greek goddess Tyche.

In May 2005, a Polish team excavating at the Lat temple discovered a highly-detailed stone statue of the winged goddess of victory.

That spring Welcome To Our City was selected for production by the 47 Workshop and it was staged in the middle of May.

Such repair work, a reduction in height, and unusually high snowmelt and heavy spring rains combined to cause the dam to give way on May 31, 1889 resulting in twenty million tons of water to sweep down the valley causing the Johnstown Flood.

In spring, the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia normally thaw during in late April, with some ice ridges persisting until May in the eastern extremities of the Gulf of Finland.

Déby won a flawed 63 % first-round victory in May 2001 presidential elections after legislative elections were postponed until spring 2002.

In the spring, some time before the end of May, his armies met Carinus ' across the river Margus ( Great Morava ) in Moesia.

In spring 2008 a Calandra Lark was identified in April, and in May a Caspian Plover was observed, only the fourth such record for the UK.

In the spring of 1945 Germany itself was invaded from the east by the Soviet Union and from the west by the other Allies respectively ; After Red Army conquered the Reichstag in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered in early May ending the war in Europe.

Possibly he composed his verses during idle times on the farm, in the spring before the May harvest or the dead of winter.

Toshiki Kaifu's much publicized spring 1991 tour of five Southeast Asian nations — Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines — culminated in a 3 May major foreign policy address in Singapore, in which he called for a new partnership with the ASEAN and pledged that Japan would go beyond the purely economic sphere to seek an " appropriate role in the political sphere as a nation of peace.

The Common Kestrel starts breeding in spring ( or the start of the dry season in the tropics ), i. e. April / May in temperate Eurasia and some time between August and December in the tropics and southern Africa.

The following spring, the Luftwaffe helped its Axis partner, Italy secure victory in the Balkans Campaign and continued to support the Italians in the Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres until May 1945.

MIT operates on a 4 – 1 – 4 academic calendar with the fall semester beginning after Labor Day and ending in mid-December, a 4-week " Independent Activities Period " in the month of January, and the spring semester beginning in early February and ending in late May.

May is a month of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

May Day on May 1 is an ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday ; it is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures.

Ozone amounts over the continental United States ( 25 ° N to 49 ° N ) are highest in the northern spring ( April and May ).

Pakistan has four seasons: a cool, dry winter marked by mild temperatures from December through February ; a hot, dry spring from March through May ; the summer rainy season, or southwest monsoon period, from June through September ; and the retreating monsoon period of October and November.

* Russian Symbolist poet Alexander Blok wrote a poem entitled Ravenna ( May – June 1909 ) inspired by his Italian journey ( spring 1909 ).

He was released from suspension the following spring on condition that he keep out of England until peace was restored, and he remained abroad till May 1218.

Over time her affection for the young doctor grew and by spring 1770 he became her lover ; a successful vaccination of the baby crown prince in May still further increased his influence.

Southern California has also a weather phenomenon called " June Gloom or May Grey ", which sometimes gives overcast or foggy skies in the morning at the coast, but usually gives sunny skies by noon, during late spring and early summer.

In temperate climates, rhubarb is one of the first food plants to be ready for harvest, usually in mid-to late spring ( April / May in the Northern Hemisphere, October / November in the Southern Hemisphere, and the season for field-grown plants lasts until September.