Despite the need for an heir, Elizabeth declined to marry, despite offers from a number of suitors across Europe, including the Swedish king Erik XIV.

Despite his pragmatic acceptance of the new power balance in the Pacific after World War II and his strong support for the American alliance, he publicly professed continued admiration for links with Britain, exemplified by his admiration for Queen Elizabeth II, and famously described himself as " British to the bootstraps ".

Despite Elizabeth's government constantly begging her to marry in the early years of her reign, it was now persuading Elizabeth not to marry the French prince for his mother, Catherine de ' Medici, was suspected of ordering the St Bartholomew's Day massacre of tens of thousands of French Protestant Huguenots in 1572.

Despite Elizabeth ’ s volatile, often violent reactions in regards to her appearance, the Empress was ebullient in most other matters particularly when it came to Court entertainment.

Despite being regarded as one of the most popular members of the royal family in recent times who helped to stabilise the popularity of the monarchy as a whole, Elizabeth was subject to various degrees of criticism during her life.

Despite this, his mother and Elizabeth Woodville agreed Henry should move to claim the throne, and once he had taken it, he would marry Woodville's daughter, Elizabeth of York, uniting the two rival Houses.

Despite similarities in theme and name, Nyarlathotep does not feature at all in Lovecraft's story " The Crawling Chaos ", ( 1920 / 21 ) an apocalyptic narrative written in collaboration with Winifred V. Jackson ( aka Elizabeth Berkeley ).

Despite the Puritans ' rousing opposition in the country ( which her zealously anti-catholic councillor Sir Francis Walsingham secretly approves of ), Elizabeth seems taken with the witty and flower-tongued François.

Despite a harsh clampdown against conspiring Roman Catholics, Mary ( in domestic exile and Elizabeth's prisoner for nearly twenty years ), inspires an earnest attempt to overthrow Elizabeth.

On Friday 13 February, the flooded areas were visited by the young Queen Elizabeth II Despite severe loss of life in nearby Canvey Island, only one person in Thurrock died as a result of the floods.

Despite claims to the contrary, the opening scenes of the first episode, taking place on a train, bear a striking resemblance to those of the first episode of the series Peyton Place ; the made for television film, Della ( aka Royal Bay starring Joan Crawford ) appears to be the inspiration for the story involving Elizabeth.

Despite its mocking title, Queen Elizabeth I Dancing with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, this painting of the lavolta is from the French Valois school and depicts unknown dancers.

Despite his warm relationship with his wife Elizabeth he suffers from impotence.

Despite her relinquishment of her royal title, Lady Patricia remained a member of the British Royal Family, remained in the line of succession, and attended all major royal events including weddings, funerals, and the coronations of George VI and Elizabeth II in 1937 and 1953 respectively.

Despite blindness and diminished hearing, Douglas continued to be active into her second century, and was honored with a visit from Queen Elizabeth II, to whom Douglas gave a signed copy of The Everglades: River of Grass in 1991.

Despite Mary's actions, Elizabeth still seemed to support her cousin's claim to the Scottish throne, and Mary wrote regularly to her supporters in Scotland asking them to be faithful and to await the help she believed Elizabeth would provide.

Despite rescuing Elizabeth Swann ( Keira Knightley ), the daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann ( Jonathan Pryce ) from drowning, he is jailed for piracy.

Despite his mother's dying in early 1933, Kertész married Elizabeth on 17 June 1933.

Despite his success, Przemysł I wanted to end his disputes with the Silesian Piasts and in 1244 he married Bolesław II's sister Elizabeth, brought this to the monastery in Trzebnica.

Despite the age gap, the two soon became very close, Elizabeth dubbing him her " frog " on account of a frog-shaped earring he had given her.

Despite the Dissolution of the Monasteries the church continued in use as a chapel-of-ease until after 1586 when an inquisition was held in the name of Queen Elizabeth into why the chapel and lands had not reverted to the crown.

Despite Fiji's membership at that time as a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, the Great Council recognized Queen Elizabeth II as its traditional Queen or paramount chief.

Despite his yearning, the colonel would not go down to see the men come through the lines.

Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC Master and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ROM cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System — a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System.

Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.

Despite the outstanding victories, Germany was near defeat, which meant that Bulgaria would be left without its most powerful ally.

Despite vocal opposition from Contre-Admiral Armand Blanquet, who insisted that the fleet would be best able to respond in open water, the rest of the captains agreed that anchoring in a line of battle inside the bay presented the strongest tactic for confronting Nelson.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite its failure to control the rodents, the cane toad was introduced to Puerto Rico in the early 20th century in the hope that it would counter a beetle infestation ravaging the sugarcane plantations.

Despite the club's poor record, several Rockies hitters gained notoriety for their exploits at the plate, assisted by the thin and dry air of Denver, which purportedly allows balls to carry farther than they would at sea-level ballparks.

Despite this, at first he thought staying and founding a city would serve well for his honor.

Despite heroic efforts, Old Prussian sovereignty would eventually collapse after a succession of wars instigated by Pope Honorius III and his frequent calls for crusade.

Despite proclaiming high clinical standards for himself to gather information ' by means of expert analysis of individual cases ', he would also draw on the reported observations of officials not trained in psychiatry.

Despite the fact that El Cid's mother's family was aristocratic, in later years the peasants would consider him one of their own.

Despite this, the club had recruited many talented young players in the late 70s who would emerge as club greats.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

Despite the success of the expedition, the quelling of sporadic rebellions would take another eight years until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under Joseph Gallieni.

Despite most Guatemalans ' attachment to the original ideals of the 1944 uprising, some private sector leaders and the military began to believe that Arbenz represented a Communist threat and supported his overthrow, hoping that a successor government would continue the more moderate reforms started by Arevalo.

Despite that a proposed bill in American Senate would allow the reserve to continue to sell the gas.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

Despite midseason trade rumors, Beltrán would prove instrumental to the team's hopes, hitting eight home runs in the postseason.

Despite the competition, Harley-Davidson was already pulling ahead of Indian and would dominate motorcycle racing after 1914.

Despite fears by the Linux gaming community that Id Tech 5 would not be ported to that platform, Timothee Besset in his blog has stated " I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done ".

Despite the need to start back at the bottom of the naval hierarchy, Cook realised his career would advance more quickly in military service and entered the Navy at Wapping on 7 June 1755.

Despite this, in an editorial in his newspaper Das Reich in November 1941 Goebbels quoted Hitler ’ s 1939 " prophecy " that the Jews would be the loser in the coming world war.

Despite this, Madison still feared that the states would compel congress to call for a new constitutional convention, which they had the right to do.

Despite his claim to unique authority within England, John would sometimes justify his actions on the basis that he had taken council with the barons.