Dr. W. B. Bonnor, reader in mathematics at Queen Elizabeth College, London ; ;

The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).

* 1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo ' 88 in Brisbane, Australia.

She is reputed to have met with Queen Elizabeth 1 in 1593.

As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

* 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht.

Puttenham, in the time of Elizabeth I of England, wished to start from Elissabet Anglorum Regina ( Elizabeth Queen of the English ), to obtain Multa regnabis ense gloria ( By thy sword shalt thou reign in great renown ); he explains carefully that H is " a note of aspiration only and no letter ", and that Z in Greek or Hebrew is a mere SS.

* 1596 – Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia ( d. 1662 )

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

After a few failed attempts at invasion, the brothers signed a peace treaty, arranged by Afonso's mother Queen Elizabeth.

But if every historian were to assert that Queen Elizabeth was observed walking around happy and healthy after her funeral, and then interpreted that to mean that they had risen from the dead, then we'd have reason to appeal to natural laws in order to dispute their interpretation.

* 1982 – Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

* 1900 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ( d. 2002 )

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

* 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

Government of Barbados consists of: The Monarch, HM Queen Elizabeth II ( and her representative the Governor-General, HE Sir Elliott Belgrave ); The Prime Minister, The Hon.

* The M ' Babwa of M ' Gonkawiwi: African chief, who occasions great administrative problems in connection with his invitation to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Blackadder II is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558 – 1603 ), played by Miranda Richardson.

The New Zealand monarchy has been distinct from the British monarchy since the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947, and all Elizabeth II's official business in New Zealand is conducted in the name of the Queen of New Zealand, not the Queen of the United Kingdom.

Under its terms, King William III, childless, would be succeeded by Queen Mary II's sister Princess Anne and her descendants.

This baton has within it Queen Elizabeth II's message of greeting to the athletes.

In what has been called a coup d ' état, the Cardinal of Lorraine and the Duke of Guise — whose niece, Mary, Queen of Scots, had married Francis the year before — seized power the day after Henry II's death and quickly moved themselves into the Louvre with the young couple.

Robert Dudley was counted among Princess Elizabeth's special friends by Philip II's envoy to the English court a week before Queen Mary's death.

Mary II of England | Queen Mary II's Bedchamber, also known as Caroline of Ansbach | Queen Caroline's State Bedchamber.

There are four Canadian citizens within the Canadian Royal Family: Two married into it: In 1988, Sylvana Jones ( née Tomaselli in Placentia, Newfoundland ) wed the Earl of St. Andrews, a great-grandson of King George V, and, on 18 May 2008, Autumn Kelly, originally from Montreal, married Queen Elizabeth II's eldest grandson, Peter Phillips.

Celebrations took place to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the first such event in Canada since 1897, when Victoria marked her 60th year on the throne.

In 2002, as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, Stirling was granted city status.

* 34 % said Australia should become a republic only after Queen Elizabeth II's reign ends.

" She stated her view that it would be appropriate for Australia to become a republic only once Queen Elizabeth II's reign ends.

Since the 1996 reorganisation, two more Scottish cities have been designated: Inverness as part of the millennium celebrations, and Stirling in 2002, to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee.

There are currently 69 officially designated cities in the UK, of which eleven have been created since 2000 in competitions to celebrate the new millennium and Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee in 2002 and Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

The barrier was closed on 3 June 2012 to reduce the river flow whilst the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant took place as part of the celebrations for the Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

The whole district obtained city status in 2002, becoming England's 50th city in the 50th year of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.

Nevertheless, the project was subsequently renamed the Jubilee line for Queen Elizabeth II's 1977 Silver Jubilee following a pledge made by the Conservatives in the Greater London Council election of 1977.

* The Doctor Who episode " The Idiot's Lantern " was based around Muswell Hill, set during Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953.

Most recently Chelmsford in Essex was given its charter in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee in 2012.

The Trust has launched a Jubilee Woods project, which aims to plant 6 million trees and create 60 commemorative ' Diamond ' woods across the UK as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012.

Lesney's reputation would be moulded by Jack Odell, Leslie Smith and Rodney Smith ( hence the name " Lesney "); their first major sales success was the million-selling model of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Coach.

Cattermole stayed with the band until June 2002, featuring in five out of thirteen episodes of the group's final television series, Viva S Club, and performing his final concert with the group for Party at the Palace, which was part of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee celebrations.

Hillery also hit the headlines when, on the advice of then Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, he declined Queen Elizabeth II's invitation to attend the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.