Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Her father's attention would be on the road ahead and it wouldn't deviate an inch until he crossed the bridge at the Falls and took the River Road to LaSalle and, finally, turned in at their own driveway at 387 Heather Heights.

Her mother was a Greer and her father's family came from the Orkney Isles.

Her brother conducted the ceremony and a modest reception followed at her father's house.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

Her brother, Laertes, returns from France, horrified by his father's death and his sister's madness.

Her father was a home builder and later successful real estate developer while her mother worked as the bookkeeper for her father's business.

Her coronation took place in Székesfehérvár on 17 September, the day after her father's burial, and she was unprecedentedly crowned " king " rather than " queen ", in order to emphasise her role as monarch and possibly to reduce that of her future husband.

Her godparents included her father's cousin, Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

Her paternal grandparents were immigrants from Russia and Romania ; many of her father's family perished in the Holocaust.

Her father's family was originally named " Tomchin ", but took the surname " Horowitz " when they immigrated to America.

Her funeral was held on 15 February 2002 — the 50th anniversary of her father's funeral.

Her mother had started out as her father's mistress.

Her father's Roman name was Julius Aurelius Zenobius, with the gentilicium Aurelius showing that his paternal ancestors received Roman citizenship under either Antoninus Pius ( reigned 138 – 161 ), Marcus Aurelius ( reigned 161 – 180 ) or Commodus ( reigned 180 – 192 ).

Her father's Greek name was Antiochus, according to scriptures found in Palmyra.

Her father's brother was King Charles II, who ruled the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, and her mother was the daughter of Lord Chancellor Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon.

Her father's ancestry was more distinguished than that of Thomas Boleyn and John Seymour and Catherine's lineage, unlike that of Henry's wife, Anne Boleyn, was better and more established at Court.

Her father's accession gave rise to further conflict over the fate of Schleswig-Holstein.

Her children could be legitimized by their father's acknowledgment before witnesses and were often adopted.

Her father's earlier business venture had depended at least in part upon slave labour, and the outcome of the American Civil War caused the family to live in near-poverty for several years before Nancy was born.

Her father's brother Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet was a British politician, and her first cousin once removed is British politician Tony Benn.

Her father's film directing took the family to Africa, India, Spain, Switzerland, England, and the United States.

Her surname probably reflects her father's lordship of Beaufort in Champagne, France, where she might also have been born.

Her reign is famous for the defeat of the Armada, and for successful raids against the Spanish, such as those on Cádiz in 1587 and 1596, but some historians point to military failures on land and at sea.

Her reign as Saimei encompassed 655 – 661.

Her six-year personal reign was marred by a series of crises, largely caused by the intrigues and rivalries of the leading nobles.

Her actions promoted the reign of her husband: Upon the death of the Polish High Duke Władysław III Spindleshanks in 1231, Henry also became Duke of Greater Poland and the next year prevailed as High Duke at Kraków.

Her status was then somewhat uncertain ; she was supposed to reign along with her husband, and did formally exercise royal prerogatives.

Her long reign saw Britain reach the zenith of its economic and political power.

Her cult was popular throughout Egypt, but her most important temples were at Behbeit El-Hagar in the Nile delta, and, beginning in the reign with Nectanebo I ( 380 – 362 BCE ), on the island of Philae in Upper Egypt.

Her tomb originally boasted an alabaster memorial, which was deliberately destroyed during extensions to the abbey in the reign of her grandson, Henry VII.

" Her staunch support of her husband continued during the latter half of his reign.

Queen's Counsel ( postnominal QC ), known as King's Counsel ( postnominal KC ) during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her His Majesty's Counsel learned in the law.

Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial power.

Her reign occurred just before the end of the Great Northern War.

Her cult seems to have still been active in the later reign of Sneferu.

:: For Ashtarot raised him with Her hand to reign for three years from the month of Churvar, from the day of the burial of the divinity.

Her reign was marked by violent political struggles among the members of the Angevin house.

Her next choice was the married Constantine Atroklines, a court official, with whom it was rumoured that she ’ d had an affair with during the reign of Romanos III.

Her reign would be a noteworthy one.

Her so-called " reign " lasted from around 1667, when she first danced with Louis XIV at a ball hosted by the king's younger brother, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, at the Louvre, until her alleged involvement in the notorious Affaire des Poisons in the late 1670s to 1680s.

Her platform for her reign was raising awareness of homeless veterans ; her father was a wounded veteran of the Vietnam War.

Her reign of military conquest extended as far as central modern day Botswana.

Her ' oldest person ' reign lasted only 46 days.

Her reign was not successful.

: Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to call to His Mercy our late Sovereign Lord King George the Sixth of Blessed and Glorious memory, by whose Decease the Crown is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary: WE, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm, being here assisted with these His late Majesty's Privy Council, with representatives of other Members of the Commonwealth, with other Principal Gentlemen of Quality, with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of London, do now hereby with one voice and Consent of Tongue and Heart publish and proclaim that the High and Mighty Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary is now, by the death of our late Sovereign of happy memory, become Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of all Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to whom Her lieges do acknowledge all Faith and constant Obedience with hearty and humble Affection, beseeching God by whom Kings and Queens do reign, to bless the Royal Princess Elizabeth the Second with long and happy Years to reign over us.