The same year she was elected to the first London School Board, an office newly opened to women ; Elizabeth's was the highest vote among all the candidates.

Elizabeth's first policy toward Scotland was to oppose the French presence there.

Elizabeth's first instinct was to restore her fellow monarch ; but she and her council instead chose to play safe.

The first signs of a new literary movement had appeared at the end of the second decade of Elizabeth's reign, with John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender in 1578.

In 1578, to further the plans of exiled English and Irish Catholics such as Nicholas Sanders, William Allen, and James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, Gregory outfitted adventurer Thomas Stukeley with a ship and an army of 800 men to land in Ireland to aid in the hope for overthrow of Elizabeth's rule through the Catholic leader and former leader of the first Desmond rebellion, Fitzmaurice.

In 1564 Guilliam Boonen came from the Netherlands to be Queen Elizabeth's first coach-builder — thus introducing the new European invention of the spring-suspension coach to England, as a replacement for the litters and carts of an earlier transportation mode.

Elizabeth's first husband was Sir John Grey of Groby whom she married in about 1452.

The first was the marriage of his aunt, Lady Katherine Neville, over 60 years old, to Elizabeth's 20-year-old brother, John Woodville, a pairing considered extreme by society.

For the first 30 years of Elizabeth's reign, until Leicester's death, he and Lord Burghley were the most powerful and important political figures, working intimately with the Queen.

Alan Haynes describes him as " one of the most strangely underrated of Elizabeth's circle of close advisers ", while Simon Adams, who since the early 1970s has researched many aspects of Leicester's life and career, concludes: " Leicester was as central a figure to the ' first reign ' Elizabeth as Burghley.

Mary I died in 1558, and she was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth I. Walsingham returned to England, and through the support of one of his fellow former exiles, Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, he was elected to Elizabeth's first parliament as the member for Bossiney, Cornwall, in 1559

For example, in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, the main character Elizabeth's change of heart and love for her suitor, Mr. Darcy, is first revealed when she sees his house:

The first episode was broadcast on 19 February 1971, beginning on screen in the year 1549 with the then Princess Elizabeth's difficult ascent to the throne of England nine years later.

Queen Elizabeth's Walk is a short wooded trail that dates back to the first Elizabeth.

An Act of Elizabeth's first parliament dissolved the refounded houses ; but although Elizabeth offered to allow the monks in Westminster to remain in place with restored pensions if they took the Oath of Supremacy and conformed to the new Book of Common Prayer, all refused and dispersed unpensioned.

It was the first Protestant college to be founded at the university, and it is the only Oxford college to date from Elizabeth's reign.

Polonius was first proposed as a parody of Queen Elizabeth's leading counsellor, Lord Treasurer, and Principal Secretary William Cecil, Lord Burghley in 1869.

Also for the first time some of Elizabeth's coins were dated.

A highlight in Port Elizabeth's history was the first flight to Port Elizabeth from Cape Town in 1917, made by Major Allister Mackintosh Miller.

Those hoping for governmental change from James were at first disappointed when he maintained Elizabeth's Privy Councillors in office, as secretly planned with Cecil, but James shortly added long-time supporter Henry Howard and his nephew Thomas Howard to the Privy Council, as well as five Scottish nobles.

Elizabeth and William were granted some of the property of Elizabeth's first husband, who had also been Mortimer's son and heir.

When a number of Flemish Anabaptists were taken by Elizabeth's government in 1572 and sentenced to be burnt, Foxe first wrote letters to the Queen and her council asking for their lives and then wrote the prisoners themselves ( having his Latin draft translated into Flemish ) pleading with them to abandon what he considered their theological errors.

The first cracks in Elizabeth's marriage began to appear.

Feckenham sat in Elizabeth's first parliament, and was the last mitred abbot to do so.

Disgusted, Lady Catherine leaves and drops by to inform her nephew on Elizabeth's abominable behaviour.

* Lady Elizabeth's Men

( Lady Colin Campbell claims Elizabeth's biological mother was the family cook, Marguerite Rodiere, by means of a surrogacy arrangement that was not uncommon in aristocratic families at the time.

In the words of Lady Elizabeth's mother, Albert would be " made or marred " by his choice of wife.

3 ) declared Edward's and Elizabeth's children illegitimate on the grounds that Edward had made a previous promise ( known as a precontract ) to marry Lady Eleanor Butler, which was considered a legally binding contract that rendered any other marriage contract invalid.

Elizabeth's mother, Elizabeth Woodville, made an alliance with Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor, who was the closest to Royalty the Lancastrian party possessed.

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, produced by the Lady Elizabeth's Men, skilfully combines Middleton's typically cutting presentation of London life with an expansive view of the power of love to effect reconciliation.

The over-ambitious Thomas started to make advances toward Elizabeth, sneaking into " the Lady Elizabeth's chamber before she was ready, and sometimes before she did rise ; and if she were up he would bid her good morrow and ask how she did, and strike her upon the back or on the buttocks familiarly ..." Thomas, while doing this, was often only partly dressed.

There are also several primary schools in Hamilton, including, St Cuthbert's, Our Lady and St Anne's, St Elizabeth's St Peter's, St Paul's, St Mark's, St Ninian's, St Mary's, Glenlee, Townhill, Udston, Woodhead, Beckford, St John's, Woodside and Chatelherault Primary Schools.

At the end of the English Civil War Lady Eleanor Drake was joined at her Devon home, Ashe House in the parish of Musbury, by her third daughter Elizabeth, and Elizabeth's husband, Winston Churchill.

Between 1623 and 1626 Massinger produced unaided for the Lady Elizabeth's Men, then playing at the Cockpit Theatre, three pieces, The Parliament of Love, The Bondman and The Renegado.

* January 25-The Lady Elizabeth's Men perform the formerly controversial Eastward Ho at Court

* November 1-The Lady Elizabeth's Men perform Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair at Court, the day after its première.

** The Lady Elizabeth's Men perform Marston's The Dutch Courtesan at Court on February 25.

The 1977 issue was to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's silver Jubilee, the 1980 issue for the 80th birthday of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and, in 1981, the coin was issued to celebrate the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles.

The intervention of Lady Elizabeth's husband Sir George Carey gained his release.

In this period, Heywood was associated with Christopher Beeston's company at The Phoenix theatre, Queen Henrietta's Men or Lady Elizabeth's Men.

Along with The Isle of Dogs, the most famous play to premiere there was Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, performed by the newly-merged Lady Elizabeth's Men in 1613.

On Lady Elizabeth's death in 1714 the abeyance was terminated in favour of Henrietta, who became the fourth Baroness.

Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and Elizabeth's eldest son married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 ; the couple had two children, William and Harry, but divorced in 1992, during which year Prince Andrew and Princess Anne also separated from their spouses, leading the Queen to call the year her ' annus horribilis '.

In the episode's present-day narrative, Richardson portrays a Sloane Ranger Lady Elizabeth who is a friend of the contemporary Edmund Blackadder ; she is shocked to discover that Queen Elizabeth's crown fits her head perfectly.

It was revived by the Lady Elizabeth's Men in 1613 ; and on 25 January 1614, that company performed Eastward Ho at Court.