Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

* Queen ( band )' s Roger Meddows Taylor included the track " Interlude in Constantinople " on Side 2 of his debut album Fun in Space.

With DeMille renowned for his flamboyance and showmanship, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury famously said of his band, " We're the Cecil B. DeMille of rock and roll, always wanting to do things bigger and better ".

The rock band Queen used a ( toy ) koto in " The Prophet's Song " on their 1975 album A Night at the Opera.

Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the band Queen, collected stamps as a child.

* Freddie Mercury ( born Farrokh Bulsara ) of the rock band Queen was born in Stone Town, Zanzibar.

In August 2007, Brian May, lead guitarist with the band Queen, handed in his PhD thesis Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud 36 years after starting it and then abandoning it in favour of a musical career.

Also the King and Queen of the bands are crowned, where each band to parade costumes for the next two days submits a king and queen, from which an overall winner is chosen.

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of the late Freddie Mercury ( lead vocals, piano ), Brian May ( guitar, vocals ), John Deacon ( bass guitar ), and Roger Taylor ( drums, vocals ).

Before joining Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor had been playing together in a band named Smile with bassist Tim Staffell.

Mercury himself joined the band shortly thereafter, changed the name of the band to " Queen ", and adopted his familiar stage name.

Queen enjoyed success in the UK with their debut and its follow-up, Queen II ( 1974 ), but it was the release of Sheer Heart Attack ( 1974 ) and A Night at the Opera ( 1975 ) that gained the band international success.

In late 1970, after Staffell left to join the band Humpy Bong, the remaining Smile members, encouraged by Bulsara, changed their name to " Queen " and continued working together.

The group's second LP, Queen II, was released in 1974, and features rock photographer Mick Rock's iconic image of the band on the cover.

The most recognisable of the Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home in March 1977, and the band thanked him in person, and performed "' 39 " a cappella.

In 1981, Queen travelled to South America as part of The Game Tour, and became the first major rock band to play in Latin American stadiums.

For the last two albums made while Mercury was still alive, the band credited all songs to Queen, rather than specific members of the group, freeing them of internal conflict and differences.

The Foo Fighters paid homage to the band in performing " Tie Your Mother Down " to open the ceremony before being joined on stage by May, Taylor, and Paul Rodgers, who played a selection of Queen hits.

In May 2011, Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell noted that Queen are currently scouting their once former and current live bassist Chris Chaney to join the band.

On 25 and 26 April, May and Taylor appeared on the eleventh series of American Idol at the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, performing a Queen medley with the six finalists on the first show, and the following day performed " Somebody to Love " with the ' Queen Extravaganza ' band.

Puttenham, in the time of Elizabeth I of England, wished to start from Elissabet Anglorum Regina ( Elizabeth Queen of the English ), to obtain Multa regnabis ense gloria ( By thy sword shalt thou reign in great renown ); he explains carefully that H is " a note of aspiration only and no letter ", and that Z in Greek or Hebrew is a mere SS.

He was made a " Knight of the Indian Empire " by Queen Victoria, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by Edward VII ( 1902 ), and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India by George V ( 1912 ).

* Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange ( born 1967 ), the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus and heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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.

A passionate fighting-man ( he fought twenty-nine battles against Christian or Moor ), he was married ( when well over 30 years and a habitual bachelor ) in 1109 to the ambitious Queen Urraca of León, widow of Raymond of Burgundy, a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role.

Amazon preparing for a battle ( Queen Antiop or Armed Venus ), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. )

Of his late works for the stage only two works gained wide popular esteem during his life, Palmira, regina di Persia ( Palmira, Queen of Persia ) 1795 and Cesare in Farmacusa ( Caesar on Pharmacusa ), both drawing on the heroic and exotic success established with Axur.

The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci nell sembiante ( 1679 ) gained him the support of Queen Christina of Sweden ( who at the time was living in Rome ), and he became her Maestro di Cappella.

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

* Oliver Thornton, West End actor-currently starring in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( musical ), was born and grew up in Abergavenny.

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

A Queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, Niobe boasted of her superiority to Leto because while she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven boys and seven girls, Leto had only one of each.

Blackadder II is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558 – 1603 ), played by Miranda Richardson.

His moralism often angered his upper-class opponents ( including Queen Victoria ), and his heavy-handed control split the Liberal party.

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

Two illuminated Psalters, the Queen Mary Psalter ( British Library Ms. Royal 2B, vii ) and the Isabella Psalter ( State Library, Munich ), contain full Bestiary cycles.

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

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.

* Cassiopea ( Encantadia ), the first Queen of Lireo in the Encantadia fantasy series of GMA Network

In the case of an amendment related to the Office of the Queen, the use of either official language ( subject to section 43 ), the amending formula itself, or the composition of the Supreme Court, the amendment must be adopted by unanimous consent of all the provinces in accordance with section 41.

For example, a writer in a recent number of The Queen hyperbolically states that `` of the myriad imprecations the only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion that they are ' un-English ' ''.

* 1951 – John Deacon, English bass player and songwriter ( Queen )

Ena: Spain's English Queen.

Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.

The soldiers of Wellington's army who died besieging the citadelle in 1813 are buried in the nearby English Cemetery, visited by Queen Victoria and other British dignitaries when staying in Biarritz.

At an early age, Catherine was considered a suitable wife for Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Henry VII of England and heir to the throne, due to the English ancestry she inherited from her mother Queen Isabella I of Castile.

The musical style was emphasized in many of the episode titles, which were in English, such as: " Asteroid Blues ", " Honky Tonk Woman ", " Ballad of Fallen Angels ", " Heavy Metal Queen ", " Jamming With Edward ", " Jupiter Jazz " and " Mushroom Samba ".

In the late mid-sixteenth century, among groups of English Protestant exiles fleeing from Queen Mary I, some of the earliest anti-monarchist publications emerged.

There were exceptions to this rule however, such as the full-sized elves who appear in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter as well as Northern English and Scottish Lowlands folklore ( as seen in such tales as The Queen of Elfan's Nourice and other local variants ).

She is identified as Eleanor, by the Grace of God, Queen of the English, Duchess of the Normans.

She feared that the French planned to invade England and put Mary, Queen of Scots, who was considered by many to be the heir to the English crown, on the throne.

In 1594, they were visited by English commander Richard Hawkins, who, combining his own name with that of Queen Elizabeth I, the " Virgin Queen ", gave the islands the name of " Hawkins ' Maidenland.

Also, some British sources have accounted the flag story ( He had the Spanish flag hauled down and the English flag hoisted in its stead ; Rooke's men quickly raised the British flag ... and Rooke claimed the Rock in the name of Queen Anne ; or Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own responsibility caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession in name of Queen Anne, whose government ratified the occupation ).

The English Major General John Shrimpton was left as governor ( appointed by the Archduke Charles on the recommendation of Queen Anne ).

The two countries had shared a monarch since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his double first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I.

" Hel Our Queen: An Old Norse Analogue to an Old English Female Hell " as collected in The Harvard Theological Review, Vol.

In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I incorporated the English East India Company ( later the British East India Company ), granting it a monopoly of trade from the Cape of Good Hope eastward to the Strait of Magellan.

* 1557 – King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually results in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.

* 1949 – Roger Meddows Taylor, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Queen and The Cross )