By the time of her death, she had outlived all her children except for King John and Eleanor, Queen of Castile.

He and Eleanor were anointed and crowned King and Queen of the Franks on Christmas Day of the same year.

The vanguard, with which Queen Eleanor marched, was commanded by her Aquitainian vassal, Geoffrey de Rancon ; this, being unencumbered by baggage, managed to reach the summit of Cadmos, where de Rancon had been ordered to make camp for the night.

Eleanor was crowned Queen of England by the Archbishop of Canterbury on 19 December 1154.

Eleanor appears to have taken an ambivalent attitude towards these affairs: for example, Geoffrey of York, an illegitimate son of Henry and a prostitute named Ykenai, was acknowledged by Henry as his child and raised at Westminster in the care of the Queen.

She is identified as Eleanor, by the Grace of God, Queen of the English, Duchess of the Normans.

She ruled England in Richard's name, signing herself as ' Eleanor, by the grace of God, Queen of England '.

* 1991: A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason, and White Queen by Gwyneth Jones

13th-century depiction of Henry II of England | Henry II and John's siblings: ( l to r ) William IX, Count of Poitiers | William, Henry the Young King | Henry, Richard I of England | Richard, Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony | Matilda, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | Geoffrey, Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile | Eleanor, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily | Joan and John

A 13th-century depiction of John and his legitimate children, ( l to r ) Henry III of England | Henry, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | Richard, Isabella of England | Isabella, Eleanor of Leicester | Eleanor, and Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland | Joan

* 1152 – Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.

* November 15 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France ( d. 1558 )

* Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England ( approximate date ) ( d. 1204 )

* Eleanor of Provence, Queen consort of England ( d. 1291 )

* Eleanor of Provence, Queen of Henry III of England ( d. 1291 )

U. S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt said that Elizabeth was " perfect as a Queen, gracious, informed, saying the right thing & kind but a little self-consciously regal ".

Eleanor Roosevelt ( centre ), King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in London, 23 October 1942

Eleanor Roosevelt ( centre ), King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in London, 23 October 1942

* Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile ( 1162 – 1214 ), wife of Alfonso VIII, who brought the name into the Castilian Royal Dynasty

* Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Castile ( 1358 – 1382 ), wife of John I of Castile, daughter of Peter IV of Aragon and Eleanor of Sicily

In 1580 he was persuaded by English Jesuits to moderate or suspend the Bull Regnans in Excelsis ( 1570 ) which had excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Queen Victoria asked Lord Hartington to form a ministry, but he persuaded her to send for Gladstone.

As the Queen refused to comply, supported by Melbourne although unaware that Peel had not requested the resignation of all the Queen's ladies as she had led him to believe, Peel refused to form a new government and Melbourne was persuaded to stay on as Prime Minister.

Inglis persuaded the Queen to return to her carriage, and she left.

The slow death of the Queen could have persuaded her into handing over the crown matrimonial to her husband.

" Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort, was an enthusiastic promoter of the self-financing exhibition ; the government was persuaded to form the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to establish the viability of hosting such an exhibition.

Queen Charlotte wanted to see their cottage and persuaded the King to grant them a pension.

For now, though, the central issue was the Duchess whose growing resentment of Harley and Abigail had finally persuaded the Queen to be rid of her.

Ferdinand refused to accept this: he minted Castilian coins in the name of " Ferdinand and Joanna, King and Queen of Castile, Léon and Aragon ," and, in early 1505, persuaded the Cortes that Joanna's " illness is such that the said Queen Doña Joanna our Lady cannot govern ".

In 1779 Queen Maria Carolina of Naples persuaded her brother the Grand-Duke Leopold of Tuscany to allow Acton, who had been recommended to her by Prince Caramenico, to undertake the reorganisation of the Neapolitan navy.

The party in the administration of Robert Harley ( created Earl of Oxford and Mortimer on 23 May 1711 ) and the Viscount Bolingbroke proved more flexible at the bargaining table and were characterised by the Whigs as " pro-French "; Oxford and Bolingbroke persuaded the Queen to create twelve new " Tory peers " to ensure ratification of the treaty in the House of Lords.

It was seen as such a bad omen that Mirat was persuaded to surrender to the Queen of the sky by the local bishop.

When at last the time came to put these reforms to the test, after the Moscow campaign of 1812, it was Hardenberg who, supported by the influence of Queen Louise, persuaded Frederick William to take advantage of General Yorck's loyal disloyalty and declare against France.

Jeanne de la Motte, having entered court by means of a lover named Rétaux de Villette, persuaded Rohan that she had been received by the Queen and enjoyed her favour.

However, Queen Victoria was fond of Princess Mary and persuaded the Duke of Clarence's brother, and next in the line of succession, Prince George, Duke of York, to marry her instead.

During that period, he also persuaded the Queen of Spain to back the construction of a railway in the backwoods of Pennsylvania, which was the funding for the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad.

In November 1895, Prince Henry persuaded Queen Victoria to allow him to go to West Africa to fight in the Ashanti War.

After the death of the High King Artur Hawkwing, Ishara, the first Queen of Andor, persuaded her husband Souran Maravaile ( one of Hawkwing's generals ) to lift his siege of Tar Valon and instead establish a country.

He persuaded his rich friends in London to try it, and by the time Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I, visited in 1630 it had established itself as a spa retreat.

He worked for the Indiana Limestone Company and persuaded the company to send a new arm and a stonemason to attach it in time for the Silver Jubilee celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II in 1977.

The Queen persuaded her husband not to close them down, but to create a new college.

Charles Lee, the Master, persuaded the Corporation that the Grammar School should be allowed to exchange premises with the other City School, Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, which had a pleasant, new site on Unity Street, further up the hill.

In history, though the burghers expected to be executed, their lives were spared by the intervention of England's Queen, Philippa of Hainault, who persuaded her husband to exercise mercy by claiming that their deaths would be a bad omen for her unborn child.