Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

It was subsequently acquired by George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte, and known as " The Queen's House ".

: Canada: slightly larger than the Queen Charlotte Islands

In Britain, the Christmas tree was introduced in the time of the personal union with Hanover, by George III's Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in early 19th century, but the custom hadn't yet spread much beyond the royal family.

By 1763, he was receiving orders from the highest levels of the British nobility, including Queen Charlotte.

In 1759 ( or 1758 according to Chambers ), he went to England and became chamber-musician to Queen Charlotte.

They have mostly been encountered off the west coast of Vancouver Island and near the Queen Charlotte Islands.

* Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, ( 1744 – 1818 ), wife of George III of the United Kingdom and grandmother of Queen Victoria.

* 1759 – Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway ( d. 1818 )

* 1818 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of King George III ( b. 1744 )

* 1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia ( d. 1705 )

Punch enjoyed an audience including: Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Edward FitzGerald, Charlotte Brontë, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell.

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Queen Charlotte's Cottage

Within the conservation area is a cottage that was given to Queen Charlotte as a wedding present on her marriage to George III.

* Sophia Charlotte ( 1668 – 1705 ), Queen in Prussia

Upon Sophia's death, her eldest son Elector George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1660 – 1727 ) became heir presumptive in her place, and weeks later, succeeded Queen Anne as George I. Sophia's daughter Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ( 1668 – 1705 ) married Frederick I of Prussia, from whom the later Prussian Kings descend.

* 1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

* New Vancouver, a Kwakwaka ' wakw community on Harbledown Island in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of British Columbia

On August 11, 1857, Colonel Ebey was murdered and beheaded by Haida who traveled from the Queen Charlotte Islands when he was 39 years old.

* August 22 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.

The county is named for Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who married George III of the United Kingdom in 1761.

* September 8 – George III of the United Kingdom marries Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( Queen Charlotte ).

* September 22 – George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte are crowned.

Trials in the Queen Charlotte Islands ( Haida Gwaii ) of British Columbia using sea water sprayed on the foliage have demonstrated promising results, which may prove to be a viable option for eradication where concerns over herbicide application are too great.

The stories of his expulsion by the Franks, whose women he was taking ; of his eight-year stay in Thuringia with King Basin and his wife Basina ; of his return when a faithful servant advised him that he could safely do so by sending to him half of a piece of gold which he had broken with him ; and of the arrival in Tournai of Queen Basina, whom he married, come from Gregory of Tours ' Libri Historiarum ( Book ii. 12 ).

Their stage version of the film was to be called The Queen of Basin Street and set in New Orleans.

It connected the Bridgewater Canal at Boothstown Basin to the Chaddock Colliery, the Queen Anne Pit ( 1810 to 1820 ) and the Henfold Pit in Tyldesley.

Carr hired Jay Presson Allen to write the book and Maury Yeston to compose the score for The Queen of Basin Street, an Americanized version set in New Orleans.

The park follows the course of the River Lea ( Lee ) along the Lea Valley from Ware in Hertfordshire through Essex and North East London, through the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to East India Dock Basin on the River Thames.

Wylie presents numerous historical references for the persecution of the Kelede by the Roman church and the opposition of Queen Margaret and King David I, staunch supporters of the continental church who would have no reason to fear a sect professing continental practices.

However, the most distinctive continental European patterns are probably the similarly styled ' Classic Arts ' & ' Egyptian Queen ', produced by the Czech Rindskopf works, sporting stained bands of figures over a very simple geometric form in a very even marigold.

The James Cook University Singapore, University of Adelaide, Southern Cross University University of New Brunswick, Queen Margaret University, Temple University, The City University of New York, Baruch College, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Aventis School of Management, Curtin University of Technology & University of Wales Institute, Cardiff have established offshore campuses in Singapore to provide local and foreign ( in particular, Asian ) students the opportunity to obtain a Western university education at a fraction of the cost it would take to study in Canada, the UK, the U. S. A. or Australia.

An immediate recommendation for the Victoria Cross was put forward by Admiral de Robeck who had observed proceedings from HMS Queen Elizabeth offshore.

The Queen Mary has long been a symbol of speed, luxury, and impeccable British service on the high seas.

Not long after moving in she turned up a richly carved desk, hewed from the timbers of the British ship H.M.S. Resolute and presented to President Hayes by Queen Victoria.

* Queen Victoria – the British Weights and Measures Act of 1878 defined it as containing 4, 840 square yards.

The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Canada's Queen at Confederation.

The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. " the Mainland ", became a British colony in 1858.

Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from that of the United States (" American Columbia " or " Southern Columbia "), which became the Oregon Territory in 1848 as a result of the treaty.

Executive authority in British Virgin Islands is vested in The Queen and is exercised on her behalf by the Governor of the British Virgin Islands.

The Governor is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the British Government.

Buckingham Palace finally became the official royal palace of the British monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

She has also been the subject of a 1978 British TV series, Warrior Queen, starring Siân Phillips as Boudica.

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 ".

Balmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when it was purchased by Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert.

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partners.

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.

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

In 1975, two years before his death, Queen Elizabeth II made him a Knight Commander of the British Empire ( KBE ).

In 1975, he was knighted a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE ) by Queen Elizabeth II.

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.