The marriage greatly displeased the Norman barons, however, and as a concession to their sensibilities Edith changed her name to Matilda upon becoming Queen.

* Edith of Wessex, Queen of Wessex

Godwin and Gytha had several children, notably sons Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gyrth and Leofwine and a daughter, Edith of Wessex ( 1029 – 1075 ), who became Queen consort of Edward the Confessor.

* Stafford, Pauline ( 2001 ) Queen Emma and Queen Edith: queenship and women's power in eleventh-century England.

He sent messengers to Winchester who received the submission of that city from the widowed Queen Edith.

Isabella has been the subject of a number of other historical novels, including Margaret Campbell Barnes ' Isabel the Fair, Hilda Lewis ' Harlot Queen, Maureen Peters ' Isabella, the She-Wolf, Brenda Honeyman's The Queen and Mortimer, Paul Doherty's The Cup of Ghosts and Edith Felber's Queen of Shadows.

Among the original crown jewels were Alfred the Great's State Crown described as " Gould wyerworke set with slight stones and two little bells " which once melted down the gold that it contained fetched £ 248 and 10 shillings, while the little 11th century crown of Queen Edith only realised £ 16.

Queen Edith held this manor.

Queen Edith was the wife of Edward the Confessor and sister of king Harold, and after her death in 1075 the land passed to William the Conqueror who granted it to Geoffrey de Mandeville.

The Domesday account notes Queen Edith having 12 carucates to the geld, with no arable land outside the village.

People mentioned: Abbey of St Mary of Winchcombe ; Aelfgifu ; Alnoth ; Alric ; Alwine ; Azur ; Bondi ; Brian ; Cynewig ; Earl Tosti ; Earl Aubrey de Coucy of Northumbria ; Edwin the sheriff ; Henry de Ferrers ; Hugh ; Hugh d ' Ivry ; Hugh de Bolbec ; Queen Edith ; Ralph ; Robert ; Roger ; Rolf ; Swein ; Turold ; Walter ; Walter Giffard ; William Peverel ; William de Warenne ; William fitzAnsculf.

* Malcolm Williamson-Epitaphs for Edith Sitwell ( 1966 / 72 ), Ode for Queen Elizabeth ( 1980 ), Lento for Strings ( 1985 )

Edith Evans had begun her film career in 1915, but was noted mostly for her stage work until she appeared in the 1949 films The Queen of Spades and The Last Days of Dolwyn.

The most important of these manors was held by Queen Edith, the widow of Edward the Confessor.

Following this, Routledge had roles in several more unsuccessful Broadway productions including a musical called Love Match, in which she played Queen Victoria ; the legendary 1976 Leonard Bernstein flop 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in which she portrayed every First Lady from Abigail Adams to Edith Roosevelt ; and a 1981 musical called Say Hello to Harvey based on the Mary Coyle Chase play Harvey, which closed in Toronto before reaching New York.

Housman's play, Pains and Penalties, about Queen Caroline, was produced by Edith Craig and the Pioneer Players.

In her historical dramas, Anna Neagle was renowned for her portrayals of real-life British heroines, including Nell Gwynn ( Nell Gwynn, 1934 ), Queen Victoria ( Victoria the Great, 1937, and Sixty Glorious Years, 1938 ) and Edith Cavell ( Nurse Edith Cavell, 1939 ).

William's mother Queen Edith served as Henry's regent in England while he was away in Normandy.

One of his most unusual films, reuniting him with Dickinson, is The Queen of Spades ( 1949 ), an odd, Gothic thriller based on the Alexander Pushkin short story, in which he co-starred with Edith Evans.

It is not known to which queen this refers, but possibly the Queen was Edith, the wife of Edward the Confessor.

Queen Edith, the wife of king Edward the Confessor, had a hunting lodge in the small area between Mentmore and Crafton known as Berrystead.

His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of Astyages, King of Media.

He was a son of Peter III of Aragon and his Queen consort Constance of Sicily, daughter and heiress of Manfred of Sicily.

In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra ( Greek, also, also known as Alexandra ) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba and the twin sister of Helenus.

Her daughter by Zeus was Persephone, Queen of the Underworld.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

His maternal grandparents were Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort.

Upon the death of the Queen ( Maria Luisa of Savoy ), Alberoni in concert with La Trémoille arranged for a marriage in 1714 between the widowed King and Elisabetta Farnese, daughter of the Duke of Parma.

Acceptance was finally confirmed in 1877, when they were introduced to Princess Louise, the daughter of Queen Victoria.

The ceremony was first conducted with the Prince of Wales ( the future Edward VIII ) in 1927, then with King George VI in 1939, and last with his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and 1970.

Ferdinand – resisting the wishes of his brother – decreed the Pragmatic Sanction of 1830, enabling his daughter Isabella to become Queen.

The day before his death, he was brought news of the birth of an heir: a daughter, who became Mary, Queen of Scots.

* 1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse

* 1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.

Charles ' son and future Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg was engaged and married, as a child, to Louis ' daughter and future Queen Mary.

The union was the work of Queen Margaret I of Denmark ( 1353 – 1412 ), a daughter of King Valdemar IV of Denmark.

* 1848 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria ( d. 1939 )

She was a granddaughter of the Elisabeth aforementioned, mother of the Jagiellonians, queen of Poland, who had claimed the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1460s as being the younger daughter of the last Luxembourg heiress Elisabeth of Luxembourg, Queen of Bohemia.

At first William was seen as a moderate ruler, whose friendship with liberal Britain was symbolised by the recent marriage of his son ( the future Frederick III ) to Queen Victoria's eldest daughter ; their son ( the future William II ) was born in 1859.

* Queen mother, either a queen dowager, or a queen regnant who has abdicated, whose son or daughter has become the monarch

A daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, also known as the " Winter King and Queen of Bohemia " for their short rule in that country, Sophia was born in The Wassenaer Hof, The Hague, Dutch Republic, where her parents fled into exile after the Battle of White Mountain. She was also the granddaughter of James VI of Scotland., At birth, Sophia was granted an annuity of 40 thalers by the Estates of Friesland.

Upon Sophia's death, her eldest son Elector George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1660 – 1727 ) became heir presumptive in her place, and weeks later, succeeded Queen Anne as George I. Sophia's daughter Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ( 1668 – 1705 ) married Frederick I of Prussia, from whom the later Prussian Kings descend.

Appearing in this film is Sasha, the daughter of Queen Starsha of Iscandar and Mamoru Kodai ( Susumu's older brother ).