A passionate fighting-man ( he fought twenty-nine battles against Christian or Moor ), he was married ( when well over 30 years and a habitual bachelor ) in 1109 to the ambitious Queen Urraca of León, widow of Raymond of Burgundy, a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role.

The Viking Queen is a 1967 Hammer Films adventure film set in ancient Britain, in which the role of Queen Salina is based upon the historical figure of Boudica.

She also appeared with a starring role in the series Extreme for NBC and the syndicated series Renegade and Queen of Swords.

God Save the Queen is the de facto British national anthem and has this role in some British territories.

Section 4 of the Constitution allows the Queen to appoint an Administrator to carry out the role of Governor-General when there is a vacancy.

He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.

Eileen Herlie repeated her role from Olivier's film version as the Queen, and the voice of Gielgud was heard as the Ghost.

Richardson is known for her role as a comedic Queen Elizabeth I, aka Queenie, in the British television comedy Blackadder II.

Oxfordians, such as Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn, believe Shakespeare created such a role for the 13th Earl because it was the easiest way Edward de Vere could have " advertised his loyalty to the Tudor Queen " and remind her of " the historic part borne by the Earls of Oxford in defeating the usurpers and restoring the Lancastrians to power ".

Of the four deities of Empedocles's elements, it is the name of Persephone alone that is taboo — Nestis is a euphemistic cult title — for she was also the terrible Queen of the Dead, whose name was not safe to speak aloud, who was euphemistically named simply as Kore or " the Maiden ", a vestige of her archaic role as the deity ruling the underworld.

Marian did not immediately gain the unquestioned role ; in Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage, his sweetheart is ' Clorinda the Queen of the Shepherdesses '.

* 1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.

In contrast, Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer, who premiered the role of the Queen of the Night, evidently needed little such help: this role is famous for its difficulty.

Mozart conducted the orchestra, Schikaneder himself played Papageno, while the role of the Queen of the Night was sung by Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer.

Music and flamboyant costumes play a central role, from the Queen elections to the Grand Parade, which winds it ways down city avenues to the delight of thousands of spectators.

Queen Isabella appeared with a major role in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, and thereafter has been frequently used as a character in plays, books and films, often portrayed as beautiful but manipulative or wicked.

After the end of the Nazi-Occupation of the Netherlands during World War II there were some who saw a historical parallel between the N. S. B and the Patriot revolutionaries, while they pictured William V in the heroic role of Queen Wilhelmina and her government-in-exile.

Had she lived, she would have become Queen of the United Kingdom on the death of her father, and Leopold presumably would have assumed the role later taken by his nephew, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, as Prince Consort of the United Kingdom, and never been chosen to reign as King of the Belgians.

However, the Queen is the only member of the Royal Family with any constitutional role.

Canada's constitution is based on the Westminster parliamentary model, wherein the role of the Queen is both legal and practical, but not political.

Constitutionally, the Queen is head of state and has a role in the formation of government and in the legislative process.

The Queen also plays a central role in the formation of a cabinet after general elections or a cabinet crisis.

* Lee Meredith ( born 1947 ), actress who played the role of Ulla in the 1968 screen version of The Producers.

The film stars Stanley Baker and Michael Caine, in his first starring role, with a supporting cast that includes Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Nigel Green, Paul Daneman, Glynn Edwards, Ivor Emmanuel and Patrick Magee.

To attract ' Joe Sixpack ' to a lite beer, these commercials started to feature both elite ex-athletes such as Ray Nitschke, Ben Davidson, and Bubba Smith, but also oddball cultural figures such as Mickey Spillane ( accompanied by a blonde, Lee Meredith, who is better known for her role as Ulla, the secretary in The Producers, 1968 ), and most notably Rodney Dangerfield.

In 2001, she played the role of Ulla in the Broadway musical The Producers, by Mel Brooks.

In 2008 Richardson was cast in a leading role in original AMC pilot, Rubicon.

A decade later, John Barton's 1974 production for the RSC ( with assistance from Clifford Williams ) featured Sebastian Shaw in the title role, Tim Pigott-Smith as Posthumus, Ian Richardson as Jachimo, and Susan Fleetwood as Imogen.

Then in 1958, he was offered the part of Jimmy Porter, " an angry young man " role, in the film version of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger, a gritty drama about middle-class life in the British Midlands, directed by Tony Richardson, and again with Claire Bloom as co-star.

Rossiter had met Raine when he played the lead role of Fred Midway in a play called Semi-Detached, directed by Tony Richardson.

Ralph Richardson reprised the role of Austin Sloper he originated in the London production.

Richardson and Palmer ( 2007 ) state: " Horizontal gene transfer ( HGT ) has played a major role in bacterial evolution and is fairly common in certain unicellular eukaryotes.

Richardson was engaged to play the role of Mercutio, replacing Orson Welles, in the 1934 Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet.

He also directed Alec Guinness as Richard II, taking on the role of John of Gaunt in the production when the Old Vic governors insisted that either Richardson or Olivier must act in every production.

Richardson turned down the role of Estragon in Peter Hall's premiere of the English-language version of Waiting for Godot and later reproached himself for missing the chance to be in " the greatest play of my generation ".

Other stars included Jon Finch as the long-suffering Mr Lamb ( a role first offered to Timothy Dalton ), Laurence Olivier as the Duke of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King George IV.

As he aged, Gielgud sought out distinctive new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by Edward Albee ( Tiny Alice ), Alan Bennett ( Forty Years On ), Charles Wood ( Veterans ), Edward Bond ( Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare ), David Storey ( Home ), and Harold Pinter ( No Man's Land ), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in Beckett's Endgame, saying that the play offered " nothing but loneliness and despair ".

Warner made his professional stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre in January 1962, playing Snout, a minor role in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Tony Richardson for the English Stage Company.

The series exaggerated Bell's criminal investigations as well as the degree to which Holmes was based on Bell ( played by Ian Richardson ), and positioned Doyle in the role of a Dr. Watson to Bell's Holmes.

Above all, the use of Web 2. 0 tools calls for a careful reexamination of the role of the teacher in the classroom ( Richardson 2006 ).

It was revived twice, first in 1987 with Grey reprising his role and again in 1998 in a long-running revival, originally starring Alan Cumming as the emcee and Natasha Richardson as Sally Bowles.

However, Richardson and Palmer ( 2007 ) state: " Horizontal gene transfer ( HGT ) has played a major role in bacterial evolution and is fairly common in certain unicellular eukaryotes.

Richardson directed the critically well-received work, with Michael Hordern as Adams, Peter Firth as Joseph, and Lady Booby played by Swedish-born Ann-Margret, who received a Golden Globe nomination for the role.

Richardson was initially to have been involved ( in the role of Mike, ultimately played by Christopher Ryan ), but was not due to differences between him and the show's producer, Paul Jackson.

In 1998, Leigh took on the lead role of Sally Bowles in Sam Mendes ' Broadway revival of musical Cabaret on Broadway, succeeding Natasha Richardson who originated the role in Mendes ' production.

Kubrick took the somewhat controversial step of cutting Leigh's scenes, and recasting and reshooting the role with Swedish actress Marie Richardson.

It starred 13-year-old Christian Bale, as well as John Malkovich and Miranda Richardson ; it also featured a cameo by the 21 year old Ben Stiller, in a dramatic role.

Ian Richardson played the title role.

Ryan was the only Young Ones cast member who was not already well known in British comedy circles ; he was a last-minute replacement for Peter Richardson, for whom the role of " straight man " Mike was originally intended along with The Comic Strip members Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle.