The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci nell sembiante ( 1679 ) gained him the support of Queen Christina of Sweden ( who at the time was living in Rome ), and he became her Maestro di Cappella.

* 1626 – Queen Christina of Sweden ( d. 1689 )

* 1654 – Charles X succeeds his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.

Biopic Queen Christina in 1933, starring Greta Garbo, veiled most of the speculation about Christina of Sweden's affairs with women.

The conversion of Queen Christina of Sweden ( 1632 – 1654 ) occurred during Alexander VII's reign.

He bought the books and manuscripts of Queen Christina of Sweden for the Vatican Library.

Queen Christina of Sweden, who had become a Catholic and moved to Rome in December 1655, made Clement X prohibit the custom of chasing Jews through the streets during the carnival.

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René Descartes ( right ) with Queen Christina of Sweden ( left ).

René Descartes died on 11 February 1650 in Stockholm, Sweden, where he had been invited as a tutor for Queen Christina of Sweden.

" After Descartes died in Sweden, Queen Christina abdicated her throne to convert to Roman Catholicism ( Swedish law required a Protestant ruler ).

Bruce's family also included his brothers, Edward, Alexander, Thomas, and Neil, his sisters Christina, Isabel ( Queen of Norway ), Margaret, Matilda, and Mary, and his nephews Donald II, Earl of Mar and Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray.

René Descartes with Queen Christina of Sweden.

Queen Christina was generous to the university, gave scholarships to Swedish students to study abroad and recruited foreign scholars to Uppsala chairs, among them several from the University of Strassburg, notably the philologist Johannes Schefferus ( professor skytteanus ), whose little library and museum building at S: t Eriks torg now belongs to the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala.

* December 8 – Queen Christina of Sweden ( d. 1689 )

* The village of Bro ( Broo ) in Sweden is granted the city rights for the second time and takes the name Kristinehamn ( literally " Christina's port ") after the present Swedish monarch, Queen Christina.

* February 6 – Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain ( b. 1858 )

He was celebrated by the public and honored by Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain.

* February 10 – Christina, former Queen of Sweden, has Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi killed in her presence at the Palace of Fontainebleau.

* April 19 – Queen Christina of Sweden ( b. 1626 )

They built a fort on the present site of the city of Wilmington, which they named Fort Christina, after Queen Christina of Sweden.

* Tomb of Queen Christina in the Vatican Grottoes

The others are Norway's Stein Eriksen, Borghild Niskin, Inger Bjørnbakken, Astrid Sandvik, King Olav V ( his son ), Erik Håker, Jacob Vaage, King Harald V ( his paternal grandson ), and Queen Sonja ( his paternal granddaughter-in-law ), and Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark.

Through Lyngstad's marriage to Heinrich Ruzzo, who was a student at the same boarding school as the reigning King of Sweden, she became acquainted with the Swedish royal family and eventually became close friends with Sweden's Queen Silvia.

Sweden's first Queen Richeza ( of two ) is thought to be buried at Alvastra Abbey.

Queen Christina of Sweden's important library ( mostly amassed by her generals as booty from Habsburg Prague and German cities during the Thirty Years War ) was bought by Pope Alexander VIII on her death in 1689.

Amaranth was based on Queen Christina of Sweden's court.

Given Chrétien's known tendency to create new stories and characters, being the first to mention the hero Lancelot and his love affair with Queen Guinevere for example, the name might also be entirely invented.

To this was added his tendency to reduce texts to their essence — he shortened down not only his own text, but also his occasional translations of stories by Queen Elisabeth and even Miguel de Cervantes or Edgar Allan Poe.

The genius of the advertising campaign came from the tendency for people in alternative music bars on Queen Street West in Toronto to drink Black Label because it was cheap and as way to dissociate themselves from mainstream people drinking mainstream beer.

She was not aided by memories of Queen Constance, the Provençal wife of Robert II, tales of whose immodest dress and language were still told with horror.

A tradition may be deliberately created and promulgated for personal, commercial, political, or national self-interest, as was done in colonial Africa ; or it may be adopted rapidly based on a single highly publicized event, rather than developing and spreading organically in a population, as in the case of the white wedding dress, which only became popular after Queen Victoria wore a white gown at her wedding to Albert of Saxe-Coburg.

This term refers to the color of the wedding dress, which became popular after Queen Victoria wore a pure white gown when she married Prince Albert, and many were quick to copy her choice.

The term originates from the white color of the wedding dress, which first became popular with Victorian era elites, after Queen Victoria wore a white lace dress at her wedding ; however, the term now also encapsulates the entire Western wedding routine, especially in the Christian religious tradition, which generally includes a ceremony during which the marriage begins, followed by a reception.

The tradition of a white wedding is commonly credited to Queen Victoria's choice to wear a white wedding dress at her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840.

As historian Vicky Howard writes, " f a bride wore white in the nineteenth century, it was acceptable and likely that she wore her gown again ..." Even Queen Victoria had her famous lace wedding dress re-styled for later use.

The manufacture of silk and crepe revived the town's fortunes somewhat, and Shepton's mills manufactured the silk used in Queen Victoria's wedding dress.

For first marriages in Western countries, a white wedding dress is usually worn, a tradition started by Queen Victoria's wedding.

As Super-Girl, Queen Lucy wears a tan dress with a brown cape and Superboy's " S " symbol.

The Museum also holds James Lafayette's society portraits, a collection of over 600 photographs dating from the late 19th to early 20th centuries and portraying a wide range of society figures of the period, including bishops, generals, society ladies, Indian maharajas, Ethiopian rulers and other foreign leaders, actresses, people posing in their motor cars and a sequence of photographs recording the guests at the famous fancy dress ball held at Devonshire House in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

With the aid of her shawls, Emma posed as various classical figures from Medea to Queen Cleopatra, and her performances charmed aristocrats, artists such as Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, writers — including the great Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — and kings and queens alike, setting off new dance trends across Europe and starting a fashion for a draped Grecian style of dress.

The tradition of a white wedding is commonly credited to Queen Victoria's choice to wear a white wedding dress at her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840, at a time when white was associated with purity and conspicuous consumption ( because it was difficult to keep clean, and thus could not be worn by servants or laborers ), and when it was the color required of girls being presented to the royal court.

On the Thursday morning, schools and other organisations parade before the Lanimer Queen in themed dress, accompanied by pipe bands.

The Queen allowed the ceremony to take place at Windsor Castle, albeit in the Private Chapel rather than the grander St George's Chapel, and relieved her black mourning dress with a white mourning cap which draped over her back.

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The next day, all the captains in the squadron donned full dress and white trousers and were formally presented to the Dowager Queen, after which Napier and Stirling escorted her to the royal Palace of Necessidades, where they were received by Queen Maria II.

The grateful Queen later presented him with a magnificent replacement, a fine gold plated dress sword and scabbard which had been specially made for her.

The tradition of a white wedding is commonly credited to Queen Victoria's choice to wear a white wedding dress at her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840.

With American women following styles or dress set by the young Queen, less than a decade after her wedding Godey ’ s wrote: “ Custom has decided, from the earliest ages, that white is the most fitting hue, whatever may be the material.

The locals don fancy dress costumes and follow the Scuttlebrook Queen, with her four attendants and Page Boy, in a procession to the centre of town pulled on a decorated dray by the town's own Morris Men.

In this sequel the Red queen has changed considerably, taking the appearance of Lizzy, Alice's deceased sister, only in a royal dress befitting the Queen of Hearts, with large fleshy claws rather than hands, and her lower body combosed of fleshy tentacles that composes the entire castle.

* J. W. Burrow on the use of an image of the sculpture of the Queen and Prince Albert in Saxon dress.