Her parents, pious Roman Catholics, christened her Mary Anne Elizabeth Magdalene Steichen.

He thought he saw -- it awakened and, for a moment, interested him -- that Elizabeth held a leash in her hand and that a round fuzzy puppy was on the end of the leash.

He found Elizabeth in the parlor and asked her to make sure everything was in order in the residential hall, and then to take charge of the office while the party was here.

They want to own a junior-grade castle, or a manor house, or some modest little place where Shakespeare might once have staged a pageant for Great Elizabeth and all her bearded courtiers.

Korzybski's remedy was to deny identity ; in this example, to be aware continually that " Elizabeth " is not what we call her.

By age three, however, her mother changed her name to Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, after her own mother.

But if every historian were to assert that Queen Elizabeth was observed walking around happy and healthy after her funeral, and then interpreted that to mean that they had risen from the dead, then we'd have reason to appeal to natural laws in order to dispute their interpretation.

Maria's sister, Elizabeth Branwell ( 1776 – 1842 ), moved to the parsonage, initially to nurse her dying sister, but she spent the rest of her life there raising the children.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".

Elizabeth Branwell left a £ 350 legacy for each of her nieces.

Government of Barbados consists of: The Monarch, HM Queen Elizabeth II ( and her representative the Governor-General, HE Sir Elliott Belgrave ); The Prime Minister, The Hon.

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.

Charlotte's mother died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to be taken care of by her sister Elizabeth Branwell.

In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire.

The school's poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria ( born 1814 ) and Elizabeth ( born 1815 ), who died of tuberculosis in June 1825.

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

Charlotte's friendship with fellow writer Elizabeth Gaskell, whilst not necessarily close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855.

However Elizabeth Gaskell, who believed that marriage provided ' clear and defined duties ' that were beneficial for a woman, encouraged Charlotte to consider the positive aspects of such a union, and even tried to use her contacts to engineer an improvement in Nicholls ' financial situation.

Consequently she was third cousin of her father-in-law, Henry VII of England, and fourth cousin of her mother-in-law Elizabeth of York.

The galliard was a favourite dance of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and although it is a relatively vigorous dance, in 1589 when the Queen was aged in her mid fifties, John Stanhope of the Privy Chamber reported, " the Queen is so well as I assure you, six or seven galliards in a morning, besides music and singing, is her ordinary exercise.

Elizabeth also appointed her personal favourite, the son of the Duke of Northumberland Lord Robert Dudley, her Master of the Horse, giving him constant personal access to the queen.

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG ( 10 November 1565 – 25 February 1601 ) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Elizabeth I.

On 21 September 1578 his mother married Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth I's long-standing favourite and Robert Devereux's godfather.

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG ( 24 June 1532 or 1533 – 4 September 1588 ) was an English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Elizabeth I from her first year on the throne until his death.

Robert Dudley financed the lifestyle expected of a royal favourite by large loans from City of London merchants until in April 1560 Elizabeth granted him his first export licence, worth £ 6, 000 p. a.

William Camden saw " some secret constellation " of the stars at work between Elizabeth and her favourite, and firmly established the legend of the perfect courtier with the sinister influence.

This palace was the childhood home and favourite residence of Queen Elizabeth I.

One of Henry VIII's closest friends, Henry Norris, lived at Kew Farm, which was later owned by Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

* Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and favourite of Elizabeth I, had a house here, in which he died, much to Elizabeth's intense sorrow, on 4 September 1588, three days before the Queen's 55th birthday.

In 1619 Robert, 10th Lord Maxwell, married Elizabeth Beaumont, cousin of the Duke of Buckingham, a favourite of James VI of Scotland.

It has also been said that Shakespeare was one of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite playwrights and that she so enjoyed the buffoon Falstaff that she personally requested that Shakespeare write an entire comedy surrounding Falstaff.

There were several more creations until the famous Devereux creation in 1572, which included Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex ( 1566 – 1601 ) a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I and his son Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, the general who commanded the Parliamentary army at the Battle of Edge Hill, the first major battle of the English Civil War ( for further history of the Devereux family, see the Viscount Hereford ).

Fearing that Mary has ambitions for England's throne, Elizabeth I of England ( Glenda Jackson ) decides to weaken her claim by sending her favourite, the ambitious Robert Dudley ( Daniel Massey ), to woo and marry Mary.

He was the father of Elizabeth I's favourite of her later years, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

Even more so, Frances Brooke, the 10th Baron's wife and 11th Baron's mother, was a close personal favourite of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I.

Sir Christopher Hatton ( 1540 – 20 November 1591 ) was an English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I of England.

His mother, Mary Sidney née Dudley, was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I and a sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, an advisor and favourite of the Queen.

As a child she was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England ; she also danced in masques with Anne of Denmark, queen of King James I of England.

* Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex ( 1566 – 1601 ), favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, executed for treason

In December 1741, the daughter of Peter the Great, who, from her habits was a favourite with the soldiers, excited the guards to revolt, overcame the insignificant opposition, and ascended the throne as empress Elizabeth.

The marriage was not a happy one although Lady Elizabeth was a great favourite with her father-in-law.

Birkhall, previously owned by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother is now a favourite retreat of Prince Charles.

Thereafter, the earldom was again created for Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley.