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.

** Elizabeth II describes this year as an annus horribilis ( horrible year ), due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family, as well as the Windsor Castle fire.

Elizabeth I's charter of 1573 describes the school's purpose thus: < BLOCKQUOTE > " a grammar school which shall be called The Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth for the education, bringing up and instruction of boys and youth, to be brought up in grammar and other learning, and the same to continue for ever, and the said School for one Master and one Usher for ever to continue and remain and that there shall be for ever four-and-twenty discreet, honest governors of the said Free Grammar School.

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.

It is an official declaration that describes why the Parliament had found ( the year before ) that the marriage of Edward IV of England to Elizabeth Woodville had been invalid, and consequently their children ( including their sons Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, as well as their eldest daughter Elizabeth ) were illegitimate ( and, therefore, debarred from the throne ), and why Richard III was proclaimed the rightful king.

Prozac Nation ( sub-titled Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir ), an autobiography published in 1994 and written by Elizabeth Wurtzel, describes the author's experiences with major depression, her own character failings and how she managed to live through particularly difficult periods while completing college and working as a writer.

* The novel " Tampico's Gold " by Elizabeth Braun describes Tampico in poetic detail.

There is a reference to this in the book Elizabeth: Apprenticeship by David Starkey, which describes the early life of Elizabeth I.

); that it describes the Flight from Egypt ; that it depicts Elizabeth, Lady Katherine Grey, and her relationships with the earls of Hertford and Leicester ; that it deals with anti-clerical feeling over injunctions by Catholic priests for harder work ; that it describes Katherine of Aragon ( Katherine la Fidèle ); Catherine, the wife of Peter the Great ; Canton de Fidèle, a supposed governor of Calais and the game of cat ( trap-ball ).

On Babylon 5, Captain Elizabeth Lochley, the station's commander, describes to her captain's log the problems facing the station since the beginning of the Centauri / Interstellar Alliance war.

* Elizabeth Loftus describes the " Lost in the mall technique " as a demonstration that confabulations can be created through suggestions to experimental subjects.

Elizabeth Wichmann describes the ideal basic timbre for Peking opera songs as a " controlled nasal tone ".

The Kriges later moved to Port Elizabeth where Alice grew up in what she describes as a " very happy family ", with two brothers, both of whom became physicians.

Elizabeth Clark describes the attitude of the Church Fathers towards women as " ambivalent ".

Elizabeth Gould Davis argues that the breasts ( along with phalluses ) were revered by the women of Catal Huyuk as instruments of motherhood, but it was after what she describes as a patriarchal revolution – when men had appropriated both phallus worship and " the breast fetish " for themselves – that these organs " acquired the erotic significance with which they are now endowed ".

Founded in 1978 by Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, the group describes its mission as " to add reason and balance to debates about public health issues and bring common sense scientific views to the public.

Chapter 6, " The Intimately Oppressed " describes resistance to inequalities in the lives of women in the early years of the U. S. Zinn tells the stories of women who resisted the status quo, including Polly Baker, Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer, Amelia Bloomer, Catharine Beecher, Emma Willard, Harriot Hunt, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller, Sarah Grimké, Angelina Grimké, Dorothea Dix, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, and Sojourner Truth.

*" Morte e Vida Severina " ( translated in part by Elizabeth Bishop as " The Death and Life of Severino "), his most famous work, is a very long narrative poem ( in most editions over 80 pages long ) that describes the life of a poor rural man in the dry northeastern part of Brazil.

Elizabeth Royte author of Garbage Land, describes Keep America Beautiful as a " masterful example of corporate greenwash ," writing that in contrast to its anti-litter campaigns, it ignores the potential of recycling legislation and resists changes to packaging.

Elizabeth played in the Main Event of the 2005 World Series of Poker under the guidance of Daniel Negreanu, and won a special tournament celebrating the opening of a new poker room at Caesars Palace hotel in January 2006, beating out 83 celebrities and poker professionals to win $ 55, 000.

Victoria Elizabeth Coren ( born 18 August 1973 ) is an English writer, presenter and champion poker player.

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.

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.

In 1815, Patrick was appointed curate of the chapel in Thornton, near Bradford ; a second daughter, Elizabeth ( 1815 – 1825 ), was born shortly after.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.

Elizabeth Garrett was born on 9 June 1836 in London, the second of eleven children of Newson Garrett ( 1812 – 1893 ), from Leiston, Suffolk, and his wife, Louisa née Dunnell ( 1813 – 1903 ), from London.

One of the causes for this " second reign " of Elizabeth, as it is sometimes called, was the different character of Elizabeth's governing body, the privy council in the 1590s.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

She was succeeded by her second cousin, George I, of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, daughter of James VI & I.

The second Test at Durban was lost, but he top scored at Port Elizabeth with 85, to help square the three Test series 1-1.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

She was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abigail May Alcott and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest ; Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest.

Mary was born in 1371 to King Louis the Great and his second wife, Elizabeth of Bosnia, and was the older of the two daughters of Louis and Elizabeth to survive childhood.

Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

Bruce also married his second wife that year, Elizabeth de Burgh, the daughter of Richard de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster.

With his second wife Elizabeth de Burgh:

He married his second wife, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold on August 10, 1848 in Utica, New York and had four children ( Samuel b. 1849, Cornelia b. 1851, William b. 1853, Edward b. 1857 ).

Ernst August was a second cousin of Sophia's mother Elizabeth Stuart, as they were both great-grandchildren of Christian III of Denmark.

Elizabeth made it clear that if they refused the oath the first time, they would have a second opportunity, after which, if the oath was not sworn, the offender would be deprived of their offices and estates.

The second Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, visited the islands in 1957 as part of a world tour on board the royal yacht Britannia.

Violette Szabo was born Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell in Paris, France, on 26 June 1921, the second child of a French mother and an English taxi-driver father, who had met during World War I.

Following Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Woodhull was the second woman ever to petition Congress in person.

Louis XV was later joined by his uncle, King Philip V of Spain, who hoped to secure territories in Italy for his sons by his second marriage to Elizabeth Farnese.

* David II of Scotland ( 1324 – 1371 ) King of Scots, son of King Robert the Bruce by his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh ( d. 1327 ), was born at Dunfermline Palace, Fife.

* February 19 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York, British prince and second son of Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh