* 1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo ' 88 in Brisbane, Australia.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

" The order of the dedications has changed with the relative power of the United States and Britain, and with relative sales ; the 1954 version of the 14th edition is " Dedicated by Permission to the Heads of the Two English-Speaking Peoples, Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second.

" Consistent with this tradition, the 2007 version of the current 15th edition was " dedicated by permission to the current President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II ," while the 2010 version of the current 15th edition is " dedicated by permission to Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

The Niue Constitution Act vests executive authority in Her Majesty the Queen in Right of New Zealand and the Governor-General of New Zealand.

However the cost to Britain of maintaining a military force in New Zealand was considerable prompting a dispatch on 24 November 1846 from Right Hon Earl Grey to advise Lieutenant Governor George Grey that ... the formation of a well-organised Militia and of a force of Natives in the service of Her Majesty, would appear to be the measures most likely to be successfully adopted.

The Niue Constitution Act 1974 ( NZ ) vests executive authority in Her Majesty the Queen in Right of New Zealand and the Governor-General of New Zealand.

* 2006 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

It remains a Commonwealth realm of Her Majesty Elizabeth II, Queen of Papua New Guinea.

Her Majesty the Queen Majesty the King has asked me to form a government and I have accepted .|

The custom of saluting commissioned officers relates wholly to the commission given by Her Majesty the Queen to that officer, not the person.

Therefore, when a subordinate airman salutes an officer, he is indirectly acknowledging Her Majesty as Head of State.

The British Monarch, currently Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is the Chief of State of the United Kingdom.

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

McGonagall told the man that " it was so very bad that Her Majesty had thanked for what Chief Templar had condemned.

The sovereign has unrestricted freedom of choice ... We leave that to Her Majesty in all confidence.

* Emperors and empresses enjoy ( ed ) the style of His / Her Imperial Majesty ( HIM ), the only current example is to be found in HIM Emperor Akihito of Japan.

** On Her Majesty ’ s Secret Service ( 1969 )

Her Majesty is beginning to acquire more experience of life, and no longer judges others by the same rigid standards as before ; but meanwhile her Court has gained a reputation for extreme dullness ".

* 23 November 1981: the Moulin Rouge closes for one evening only so as to present its show to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Elizabeth created a world in which aesthetics reigned supreme, producing a Court in which an understood competition existed amongst courtiers to see who could look best, second only to Her Majesty.

Her half-aunt, the future Queen Isabella I of Castile, was due to inherit the crown, but Afonso V was keen to interfere with the succession in Castile.

Everything thus turns upon the status and meaning of clause 2 in the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, which provides: " The provisions of this Act referring to the Queen shall extend to Her Majesty's heirs and successors in the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.

Her private discussions with Prime Minister Tony Blair were dramatised in Stephen Frears ' film The Queen ( 2006 ).

Her daughter by Zeus was Persephone, Queen of the Underworld.

Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.

As the Queen is absent from the islands for most of the time, executive authority is exercised " in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf " by the Governor of the Falkland Islands.

The Constitution provides that a " Governor-General appointed by the Queen shall be Her Majesty's representative in the Commonwealth.

On the advice of her New South Wales Premier only, the Queen appoints the Governor to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving At Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.

Her fifth child, Catherine, married King Henry VIII of England and was mother to Queen Mary I of England.

* 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

" Maria Feodorovna was the younger sister of Alexandra, Queen Consort of King Edward VII and mother of George V of the United Kingdom, which helps to explain the striking resemblance between their sons Nicholas II and George V. Her older brother was King George I of Greece.

As Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II, styled Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Papua New Guinea and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, or simply Queen of Papua New Guinea, is represented in Papua New Guinea by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

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

Her sister Millicent recalled Elizabeth ’ s weekly lectures, “ Talks on Things in General ”, when her younger siblings would gather her while she discussed politics and current affairs from Garibaldi to Macauley ’ s History of England.

Her half-brother, Edward VI, bequeathed the crown to Lady Jane Grey, cutting his two half-sisters, Elizabeth and the Catholic Mary, out of the succession in spite of statute law to the contrary.

Elizabeth I and Her Age ( Norton Critical Editions ) ( 2009 ); 700pp ; primary and secondary sources, with an emphasis on literature

" Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments: The Work of Sir John Neale ," Journal of Modern History Vol.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, As Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences, Harper & Brothers, 1922.

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Her charity work includes participation with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, in which she helped design and promote a necklace, for which all proceeds from sales went to the Glaser foundation.

Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed after her death in 1558 by her younger half-sister and successor, Elizabeth I.

Her peacemaking also helped reconcile Henry with his daughters Mary and Elizabeth and fostered a good relationship between her and the crown prince.

Executive power in the United Kingdom is exercised by the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, via Her Majesty's Government and the devolved national authorities-the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Northern Ireland Executive.