After his education, Alexei married, albeit greatly against his will Princess Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, whose family was connected by marriage to many of the great families of Europe i. e., Charlotte's sister Elizabeth was married to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy.

In 1558, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.

Cecil coached the impatient James to humour Elizabeth and " secure the heart of the highest, to whose sex and quality nothing is so improper as either needless expostulations or over much curiosity in her own actions ".

Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.

They banded together and formed the League of Evangelical Union in 1608, under the leadership of the Elector Palatine Frederick IV ( 1583 – 1610 ), ( whose son, Frederick V, married Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I of England ).

Donnybrook Castle, home of the Ussher family whose most famous member was James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, is first mentioned in the reign of Elizabeth I, and was demolished early in the nineteenth century.

All current coins carry a Latin inscription whose full form is, meaning " Elizabeth II, by the grace of God, Queen and Defender of the Faith ".

On 7 September she gave birth to the future Elizabeth I of England, whose sex disappointed Henry.

At a party, he met a pregnant Elizabeth Taylor ( then married to Michael Wilding ) whose first impression of Burton was that " he was rather full of himself.

Next to the college is the little-visited National Railway Museum, whose prize exhibit is a coach built for the state visit of Elizabeth II in 1961.

Queen Elizabeth I of England, in whose reign the Thirty-Nine Articles were passed.

In April 1547, using Edward ’ s support to circumvent Somerset ’ s opposition, Thomas Seymour secretly married Henry VIII's widow Catherine Parr, whose Protestant household included the 11-year-old Lady Jane Grey and the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.

Sir Thomas Gresham, the English financier who arranged Elizabeth I's borrowings, and whose agent in Antwerp was Clough, left London for Antwerp on August 23, only hearing about the Antwerp attacks en route ; he needed to roll-over 32, 000 Flemish pounds and borrow another 20, 000 to finance her expenses in Ireland.

Hawksmoor's only child was a daughter, Elizabeth, whose second husband, Nathanial Blackerby, who wrote the obituary of his father-in-law.

His two children by Margot were Elizabeth ( later Princess Antoine Bibesco ), a writer, and Anthony Asquith, a film-maker whose productions included The Browning Version and The Winslow Boy.

After Rowbotham's death, Lady Elizabeth Blount, wife of the explorer Sir Walter de Sodington Blount, established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was " the propagation of knowledge related to Natural Cosmogony in confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation ".

God in whose hands are the hearts of Kings, who art the consoler of the humble and the protector of all who hope in thee, grant to our Queen Elizabeth and to the Christian people to celebrate wisely the triumph of thy goodness so that they may be always renewed to glory through thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

At this time, all the homes in Briarcliffe — except for the van Burens, who lived across the road from the central lake, and Elizabeth Patterson, whose home was on what is now South Gate Road — were clustered along what is now North Gate Road.

Goodman's character is a failed lounge singer named Ralph Jones whose grandmother had an affair with the fictional Duke of Warren, in the line of succession of the " House of Windam ", a not too subtle play on the House of Windsor, the current royal house of the sitting monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

Following the death of the 7th earl in 1871, the Estate passed to his widowed mother, Anne Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Chesterfield ( 1802 – 1885 ), whose good friend, Benjamin Disraeli, paid frequent visits to Bretby.

Under the pen name Fiona Buckley she writes the series of historical mysteries, set in the reign of Elizabeth I of England, featuring " Ursula Blanchard " ( whose full name is Ursula Faldene Blanchard de la Roche Stannard ).

When Richard enters to bargain with Queen Elizabeth for her daughter's hand – a scene whose form echoes the same rhythmically quick dialogue as the Lady Anne scene in Act I – he has lost his vivacity and playfulness for communication ; it is obvious he is not the same man.

Jeanne Elizabeth Crain ( May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003 ) was an American actress whose career spanned three decades from 1943 to 1975.

Cinema Verity projects that did reach production included Sleepers ( BBC1, 1991 ) and The Cazalets ( BBC One, 2001 ), the latter co-produced by actress Joanna Lumley, whose idea it was to adapt the novels by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

According to Thomas Moore, Lord Edward FitzGerald was the only one of the numerous suitors of Sheridan's first wife, Elizabeth Ann Linley whose attentions were received with favour ; and it is certain that, whatever may have been its limits, a warm mutual affection subsisted between the two.

In 1601, the earl was sent as envoy to London ; here Elizabeth I assured him that James should be her successor, and his mission was conducted with tact and prudence.

More than 25 carefully selected cities were visited, including New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Newark, Elizabeth, Stamford, Waterbury, New Haven, Bridgeport, Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and Waltham.

Last summer John and Elizabeth Sherrill were in Alaska.

He thought that certain uses of the verb " to be ", called the " is of identity " and the " is of predication ", were faulty in structure, e. g., a statement such as, " Elizabeth is a fool " ( said of a person named " Elizabeth " who has done something that we regard as foolish ).

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

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.

When his eldest daughters died of consumption in 1825, Maria on 6 May and Elizabeth on 15 June, Charlotte and Emily were immediately brought home.

Consequently, when the accession of Elizabeth I re-asserted the dominance of Protestantism in England, there remained a significant body of Reformed believers who were nevertheless hostile to the Book of Common Prayer.

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

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.

The roles of Bet Lynch, Ivy Tilsley ( Lynne Perrie ), Deirdre Hunt ( Anne Kirkbride ), Rita Littlewood ( Barbara Knox ) and Mavis Riley ( Thelma Barlow ) were built up between 1972 and 1973 with characters such as Gail Potter ( Helen Worth ), Blanche Hunt ( Patricia Cutts and Maggie Jones ) and Vera Duckworth ( Elizabeth Dawn ) first appearing in 1974.

Other newcomers were Maud Grimes ( Elizabeth Bradley ), Roy Cropper ( David Neilson ), Judy and Gary Mallett, Fred Elliot ( John Savident ) and Ashley Peacock ( Steven Arnold ).

If that were to happen, the Churchill titles would pass to the Earl of Jersey, the heir-male of Anne Villiers, Countess of Jersey, daughter of Elizabeth Egerton, Duchess of Bridgwater, a younger daughter of the first Duke.

When Elizabeth was 3 years old, the family moved to 142 Long Acre, where they were to live for 2 years, whilst two more children were born and her father moved up in the world, becoming not only the manager of a larger pawnbroker ’ s shop, but also a silversmith.

A “ by-product of the industrial revolution ”, Elizabeth grew up in an atmosphere of “ triumphant economic pioneering ” and the Garrett children were to grow up to become achievers in the professional classes of late-Victorian England.

Newson wanted to give his children the best education possible so when Elizabeth was 13 and her sister 15, they were sent to a private school, the Boarding School for Ladies in Blackheath, London, which was run by the step aunts of the poet, Robert Browning.

Elizabeth and Louie were known as “ the bathing Garretts ”, as their father had insisted they be allowed a hot bath once a week.

Elizabeth ’ s counter-argument was that the real danger for women was not education but boredom and that fresh air and exercise were preferable to sitting by the fire with a novel.

After the death of their mother in 1821, when Emily was three years old, the older sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte were sent to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge, where they encountered abuse and privations later described by Charlotte in Jane Eyre.

The three remaining sisters and their brother Patrick Branwell were thereafter educated at home by their father and aunt Elizabeth Branwell, their mother's sister.

Elizabeth therefore sought a Protestant solution that would not offend Catholics too greatly while addressing the desires of English Protestants ; she would not tolerate the more radical Puritans though, who were pushing for far-reaching reforms.

Elizabeth was fortunate that many bishoprics were vacant at the time, including the Archbishopric of Canterbury.

As usual, Elizabeth lacked control over her commanders once they were abroad.

Elizabeth advised her commanders that the Irish, " that rude and barbarous nation ", be well treated ; but she showed no remorse when force and bloodshed were deemed necessary.