During the series, he often comes into contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain Lord Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former nanny Nursie ( Patsy Byrne ).

Craigowan Lodge is used regularly by the Queen's friends and family, and has also been used by the Queen while Balmoral Castle is being prepared.

Where it is not necessary to be so urgent, or where indirect contempt has taken place the Attorney General can intervene and the Crown Prosecution Service will institute criminal proceedings on his behalf before a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

As has happened with ironic writings before and since, this pamphlet was widely misunderstood but eventually its author was prosecuted for seditious libel and was sentenced to be pilloried, fined 200 marks and detained at the Queen's pleasure.

The Irish public administration and management training centre has its base in Dublin, the Institute of Public Administration provides a range of undergraduate and post graduate awards via the National University of Ireland and in some instances, Queen's University Belfast.

The Queen's Chamber is exactly half-way between the north and south faces of the pyramid and measures north to south, east to west and has a pointed roof with an apex above the floor.

The governor grants Royal Assent in the Queen's name ; legally, he or she has three options: grant Royal Assent ( making the bill law ), withhold Royal Assent ( vetoing the bill ), or reserve the bill for the Queen's pleasure ( allowing the sovereign to personally grant or withhold assent ).

As a colony or other dependent state or territory lacks the authority to vest in a true head of state of its own, it either has no comparable office, simply receiving those roles exercised by the paramount powers ( in person or, most of the time, through an appointed representative, often styled governor or lieutenant-governor, but also various other titles, on the Cook Islands even simply King / Queen's Representative ) or has one, such as a formerly sovereign dynasty, but under a form of metropolitan guardianship, such as protection, vassal or tributary status.

UMIST has won four Queen's Prizes for Higher and Further Education, two Prince of Wales ' Awards for Innovation and two Queen's Award for Export Achievement.

* July 19 – William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, announces that Michael Trestrail ( the Queen's bodyguard ) has resigned from the Metropolitan Police Service over a relationship with a male prostitute.

The governor general also grants Royal Assent in the Queen's name ; legally, he or she has three options: grant Royal Assent ( making the bill law ), withhold Royal Assent ( vetoing the bill ), or reserve the bill for the signification of the Queen's pleasure ( allowing the sovereign to personally grant or withhold assent ).

The Carnival of Las Palmas ( Gran Canaria ) has a Drag Queen's gala where a jury chooses a winner.

* Since 1958, the Queen's Baton Relay has taken place, in which athletes carry a baton from Buckingham Palace to the games opening ceremony.

The Queen also is plotting to murder both Imogen and Cymbeline to secure Cloten's kingship, and to that end has procured what she believes to be deadly poison from the court doctor Cornelius ; Cornelius, however, suspects the Queen's malice and switches the " poison " with a drug that will cause the imbiber's body to mimic death for a while before reviving.

There are also 40 Queen's Scholars who are pupils at Westminster School ( the School has its own Governing Body ).

Unlike the game of Renaissance described above, Rococo has a similarly named Swapper piece that moves like a Queen, but trades places with the enemy it runs up to, a full Queen's move away.

In Elizabeth's reign, Nicholas Hilliard, the Queen's " limner and goldsmith ," is the most widely recognized figure in this native development ; but George Gower has begun to attract greater notice and appreciation as knowledge of him and his art and career has improved.

He recounts how he rose from humble beginnings to be " ruler of the Queen's Navee " through persistence, although he has no naval qualifications.

Dalton portrays Darnley as a bisexual who even beds the Queen's advisor, David Rizzio ( Ian Holm ), but later falls out with Rizzio and has him murdered by other plotters ( referred to in the film as the Lords of the Congregation ).

Fudan University has established exchange relationships with more than 200 universities and research institutions in about 30 countries and regions, including Oklahoma State University, Beloit College, Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University, Yale University, Trinity College ( Connecticut ), Tulane University, Durham University Business School, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Rochester, Georgetown University, Instituto de Empresa ( IE Business School ), University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Diego, University of California, Irvine, the University of Toronto, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, University of Sydney, Rhodes University, K. U. Leuven at Leuven, Flanders, Europe, Tokyo University, National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics, the University of Manchester, ESSEC, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Sciences Po Paris and Institut d ' études politiques de Lille.

One example of this ( from the Queen's Bench in England ) is Doyle v Olby ( Ironmongers ) Ltd 2 QB 158, the claimant appealed ( successfully ) on the basis that, although he won in the court below, the lower court had applied the wrong measure of damages and he had not been fully recompensated.

All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.

Recently, meetings have been attended by Queen Elizabeth II, who is the Head of the Commonwealth, although the Queen's formal appearance only began in 1997.

Some charged that the boy was " supposititious ", having been secretly smuggled into the Queen's room in a bed-warming pan as a substitute for her stillborn baby.

Also in that year he and other young Welsh Liberals founded a monthly paper Udgorn Rhyddid ( Bugle of Freedom ) and won on appeal to the Divisional Court of Queen's Bench the Llanfrothen burial case ; this established the right of Nonconformists to be buried according to their own denominational rites in parish burial grounds, a right given by the Burial Act 1880 that had up to then been ignored by the Anglican clergy.

The question of whether numbering for British monarchs is based on previous English or Scottish monarchs was raised in 1953 when Scottish nationalists challenged the Queen's use of " Elizabeth II ", on the grounds that there had never been an " Elizabeth I " in Scotland.

The garrison of the Tower of London, led by Earl Rivers, the Queen's brother, who had been injured at Barnet, repulsed them.

Traditionally they have been seen as enemies, and Cecil behind the scenes sabotaged Dudley's endeavours to obtain the Queen's hand.

In Hollywood, he tended to refer to himself as Irish rather than Australian ( his father Theodore Thomson Flynn had been a biologist and a professor at the Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland during the latter part of his career ).

Tony Rennell's book Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria reveals that Victoria had entrusted detailed instructions about her burial to her doctor, Sir James Reid ( in lieu of Brown himself, who had died in 1883: the Queen's wish had been for him to attend to her ).

In jurisdictions that have become republics, the office of Queen's Counsel has been replaced with an equivalent, for example, Senior Counsel in South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, Senior Advocate in Nigeria, India and Bangladesh, and President's Counsel in Sri Lanka.

Those who had been appointed Senior Counsel since the suspension of appointments to Queen's Counsel would be entitled to be appointed Queen's Counsel.

Much of the housing is made up of Victorian terraces which have been attracting young professionals unable to afford similar properties in nearby Kensal Green and Queen's Park.

The Queen's reaction to this has never been known and she never commented on it, but she withdrew from court and devoted herself to religion and charity.

The Duke has been criticised for using the Queen's Flight for transport to various golfing functions.

He has been a Skelton-Clark fellow and Brockington Visitor at Queen's University.

Simpson has been a member of the board of trustees at Queen's University ; the board of overseers at Green College, University of British Columbia ; the advisory board of the Review of Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta ; the editorial board of The Queen's Quarterly, and the Canadian Consortium for Asia-Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto.

Prior to their taking the stage, Queen's sound engineer covertly switched out the limiters that had been installed on the venue's sound system so the performance would be louder than the others.

Queen's performance on that day has since been voted by more than 60 artists, journalists and music industry executives as the greatest live performance in the history of rock music.

The site of the village, on the narrowest part of the Firth of Forth, with added advantage of the island of Inchgarvie in between, suggests that it would have been the natural point of crossing and a vital link to the north of Scotland for centuries before the Queen's Ferry was established.

The Queen's Speech, which followed the 2010 UK General Election, included proposals for a bill to allow the Secretary of State for Education to approve schools, both Primary and Secondary, that have been graded " outstanding " by Ofsted, to become academies.

Allinson's Queen's Mill is the world's largest traditional stonegrinding mill, since 2003 has been owned by ADM Milling Ltd.