Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

The 2009 Broadway revival with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury recorded a cast album on January 4, 2010 which was released on April 6.

At the age of three, Catherine was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the English throne, and they married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later.

By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

Catherine was born at the Archbishop's Palace in Alcalá de Henares near Madrid, on the night of 16 December 1485.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

Catherine was educated by a tutor, Alessandro Geraldini, who was a clerk in Holy Orders.

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.

At the time, the house of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and also strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry.

To settle the matter, it was agreed that Catherine would marry Henry VII's second son, Henry, Duke of York, who was five years younger than she was.

Catherine testified that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated, as also according to canon law, a marriage was not valid until consummated.

The story of the Wounded King's mystical fasting is not unique ; several saints were said to have lived without food besides communion, for instance Saint Catherine of Genoa.

: " Udolpho was written by Mrs. Radcliffe ," said Catherine, with some hesitation, from the fear of mortifying him.

The life of Catherine I was said by Voltaire to be nearly as extraordinary as that of Peter the Great himself.

There Catherine was said to have saved Peter and his Empire, as related by Voltaire in his book Peter the Great.

Of the latter, she said, " I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve.

Catherine was said to be very attractive and when Henry finally met her at Meulan, he became enamoured.

As a child, Catherine could not tolerate sewing and often ironically said to her mother " my hands are ordained to touch crowns and scepters, not spindles and needles ".

When Italian duchess Catherine de ' Medici married the Duke of Orléans ( Henry II of France ) in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to France some Italian chefs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets.

He took on there the position of secretary to the Catholic visionary nun, the Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, of whom it was said that, during the last twelve years of her life, she could eat no food except Holy Communion, nor take any drink except water, subsisting entirely on the Holy Eucharist.

Queen Catherine, upon being denied permission by her son's regents to wed John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, allegedly said upon leaving court, " I shall marry a man so basely, yet gently born, that my lord regents may not object.

Some attribute Hitchcock's casting choices to the negative experience the director had working with Paul Newman on Torn Curtain ; however, Hitchcock is said to have approached Sean Connery ( who had worked with Hitchcock in Marnie ) for Andre, and Catherine Deneuve for his wife.

There had been rumours that Charles had married Monmouth's mother, Lucy Walter, but no evidence was forthcoming, and Charles always said that he only had one wife, Catherine of Braganza.

* 16th century: Catherine de ' Medici, the Queen of France, was said by Jean Bodin to have performed a Black Mass, based on a story in his book on witchcraft.

Anne Catherine Emmerich said that as a child she had had visions, in which she talked with Jesus, had seen the souls in Purgatory, for whom she prayed, and also the core of Holy Trinity in the form of three concentric interpenetrating full spheres-the biggest but less lit sphere represented the Father core, the medium sphere the Son core, and the smallest and most lit sphere the Holy Spirit core.

Catherine is said to have written a devotional work entitled Consolation of the Soul ( in medieval Swedish Siælinna tröst, or Själens tröst in modern Swedish ), a dated copy from 1407 is still in existence.

St Catherine is generally represented with a hind ( female red deer ) at her side, which is said to have come to her aid when unchaste youths tried to rape her.

Anastasia said that, while crying over the death of her daughter, she looked up to see Catherine " kneeling at the foot " of her mattress, " holding a wooden cross that shone like the sun ".

" Chauchetière reported seeing Catherine at her grave ; he said she appeared in " baroque splendour ; for 2 hours he gazed upon her " and " her face lifted toward heaven as if in ecstasy.

The Jesuit gave him a piece of decayed wood from Catherine ’ s coffin, which is said to have made him heal.

His words and Catherine ’ s fame were said to reach even Jesuits in China and their converts.

His mother, Catherine de ' Medici is said to have written to him that " would to God you had died young.

It is said that after her mother's funeral, Catherine picked up a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and kissed it ; saying " Now you will be my mother.

The Church of England parish church of Saint Catherine is said to date from the 12th century.

In 2010, Russia started licensed production of Thales-developed Catherine FC thermal imaging cameras for T-90M tanks, a Russian daily said.

Screenshot of Sharon Stone portraying Catherine Tramell from the movie Basic Instinct-this shot is used to identify Catherine Tramell in the article of the same name, and to identify and portray the style and feel of the interrogation scene of Basic Instinct in the article Basic Instinct.

Hope wrote in a letter to the poet / academic, Catherine Cole: " Now I feel I've reached the pinnacle of achievement when you equate me with one of Yeats's ' wild, wicked old men '.