Her expenses included fine clothes and gambling at cards, one of her favourite pastimes.

Her husband, Lord Darnley, had been murdered in apparent revenge for the assassination of Rizzio ( who was a favourite of Mary's ), upon which the Queen almost immediately married the chief suspect.

Her house on Mustique, designed by her husband's uncle the stage designer Oliver Messel, was her favourite holiday destination.

Her new husband was notorious for the patronage he lavished on his favourite, Piers Gaveston, but the queen supported Edward during these early years, forming a working relationship with Piers and using her relationship with the French monarchy to bolster her own authority and power.

Her symbol is a heart, her colours are pink, blue, white and gold, and her favourite sacrifices include jewellery, perfume, sweet cakes and liqueurs.

Her favourite sacrifices include black pigs, griot ( seasoned fried pork ), and rum.

Her favourite courtier was Emerentia von Düben ( 1669 – 1743 ), her old nurse, who had been ennobled and made lady-in-waiting in 1707 and with whom she had a close relationship all her life ; Düben acted as her advisor, her comfort and support, and was not said to have abused her influence-they were described as sisters.

Her favourite places were Cap Martin on the French Riviera, where tourism had started only in the second half of the nineteenth century ; Lake Geneva in Switzerland ; Bad Ischl in Austria, where the imperial couple would spend the summer ; and Corfu.

Her memorial portrait finished in 1764 after her death, but begun while she was alive, by her favourite portraitist, François-Hubert Drouais.

Her favourite writer was probably William Shakespeare, as the frequent quotations and allusions throughout her works indicate.

Her song, Piccadilly Circus, became a public favourite, even though she only achieved fourth place in the competition.

Her own favourite programmes were Dixon of Dock Green, Neighbours, and coverage of snooker.

Her favourite guise was that of a women's magazine reporter, trying to interview big business tycoons and rich playboys.

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.

Her Recollections of a Literary Life ( 1852 ) is a series of causeries about her favourite books.

Her incredibly fast angel Suzuka is a favourite contender in tournaments.

Her favourite books are the Harry Potter series, and she has a soft spot for cute things and small children.

Her distinctive voice has made her a favourite of TV and radio impersonators.

Her popularity even grew to the point she was briefly featured in her own spin-off in which she would choose her favourite nightmares entitles ' Ivy's Favourite Nightmares.

Her claim to the County of Artois was challenged by Robert III of Artois, who at that time was a favourite of King Philip VI.

Her character quickly became one of Australia's favourite villainesses with many fans referring to her six months on the show ( ending in April 2003 ) as the " Angie Era ".

Her favourite saying is: " My brother is a dead man!

Her favourite guitar is a left-handed Gibson Les Paul with cherry sunburst colour scheme.

" Her biggest mantra was perhaps, ' in your choices lies your talent ,' she would encourage actors to find the most grand character interpretation possible in a scene, another favourite phrase of hers regarding this was ' don't be boring.

Her favourite food was hibiscus flowers.

Her strategy, to support the Dutch on the surface with an English army, while beginning secret peace talks with Spain within days of Leicester's arrival in Holland, had necessarily to be at odds with Leicester's, who wanted and was expected by the Dutch to fight an active campaign.

Her relationship with the comtesse du Barry was one which was important to rectify, at least on the surface, because Madame du Barry was the mistress of Louis XV, and thus had considerable political influence over the king.

The designation Her Majesty's Canadian Ship ( HMCS ) ( in French Navire canadien de Sa Majesté ), is applied as a prefix to surface ships in the Royal Canadian Navy.

Her many years as a park ranger enabled her to work in a variety of natural and historical settings, from 300 feet below the surface of the Earth to 13, 000 feet above sea level on the Continental Divide ; and from the textile mills of the American Industrial Revolution to the homes of Americans who changed the course of history.

Her people came to the surface and drew her down into the depths as Karitoki swam frantically about the ocean looking for her.

Her first combat missions were to destroy enemy aircraft, installations, and surface craft on Marcus and Wake Islands in May 1944.

Her doctoral dissertation involved the development of a pressure-indicating coating that uses oxygen quenching of porphyrin photoluminescence to provide continuous surface pressure maps of aerodynamic test models in wind tunnels.

Her name came from the phrase Puea ahau i te ao, which means I shall rise to the surface of the world ; however, she was known to her family as Te Kirihaehae.

Her work included research on the productivity of the algal component of cold desert soil crusts in the Great Basin Desert south of Snowville, Utah ; algal removal with intermittent sand filtration and prediction of minimum river flow necessary to maintain certain game fish ; the effects of increased salinity and oil shale leachates on freshwater phytoplankton productivity ; development of the Surface Impoundment Assessment document and computer program ( FORTRAN ) for current and future processing of data from surface impoundments in Utah ; and design and implementation of an algal bioassay center and a workshop for bioassay techniques for the Intermountain West.

Her dying exhalation under the water blossoms into bubbles of " eggs " on the surface.

Her beastly rage comes to the surface with ferocity when she learns of Steinbock's engagement to Hortense:

Her subjects became increasingly selective until her work became almost entirely images of the surface of the ocean, night skies ( with stars ), and the surface of the desert, with small stones and pebbles rendered in great detail.

Her worshippers are good-aligned drow hoping to escape the Underdark's evil, Lolth-worshipping matriarchal society, and regain a place in the surface world.

Her lesser name causes plants to grow on any surface ; her greater name raises land out of the sea.

Her preferred surface is clay.

Her favourite tennis court surface is clay, and her best shot is the backhand.

Her son, Yadorigi is melded with her body and can come to the surface to form his own tiny body.