Of his late works for the stage only two works gained wide popular esteem during his life, Palmira, regina di Persia ( Palmira, Queen of Persia ) 1795 and Cesare in Farmacusa ( Caesar on Pharmacusa ), both drawing on the heroic and exotic success established with Axur.

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single " Ashes to Ashes ", its parent album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ), and " Under Pressure ", a 1981 collaboration with Queen.

Queen enjoyed success in the UK with their debut and its follow-up, Queen II ( 1974 ), but it was the release of Sheer Heart Attack ( 1974 ) and A Night at the Opera ( 1975 ) that gained the band international success.

At the 2011 Broadcast Music, Incorporated ( BMI ) Awards held in London on 4 October, Queen received the BMI Icon Award in recognition for their airplay success in the US.

* 1912: Les Amours d ' Elisabeth, Reine d ' Angleterre ( Queen Elizabeth ; a major success ) A four-reel condensation of the play of the same name.

She also enjoyed hunting, to the dismay of Queen Victoria, who asked her to stop, but without success.

The group also achieved a commercial success with the cover versions of " Life is Life " by Opus and " One Vision " by Queen.

) Myers ' solvency is restored, the deal is completed, and as a result of Disraeli's success, Queen Victoria can add Empress of India to her other titles.

Pfeiffer's early acting appearances included television roles in Fantasy Island, Delta House and BAD Cats, and small film roles in Falling in Love Again ( 1980 ) with Susannah York, The Hollywood Knights ( 1980 ) opposite Tony Danza, and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen ( 1981 ), none of which met with much critical or box office success.

" The British press reported a triumphant royal command performance ; The Illustrated London News wrote, " Herr Jacques Offenbach, the astonishing Violoncellist, performed on Thursday evening at Windsor before the Emperor of Russia, the King of Saxony, Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert with great success.

Yaxley admitted that his missions were intended arrange the marriage of the Queen of Scots with Darnley, that Darnley's religion guaranteed him greater success in his suit than the Earl of Arran, and that Margaret Douglas had many friends in the nurtht.

The greatest commercial success for country rock came in the 1970s, with the Doobie Brothers mixing in elements of R & B, Emmylou Harris ( a former backing singer for Parsons ) becoming the " Queen of country-rock " and Linda Ronstadt creating a highly successful pop-oriented brand of the genre.

The marriage itself, however, is considered a success, with the King and Queen being very fond of each other.

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.

McAleese had been eager to have the Queen visit Ireland, and the event was widely welcomed as a historic success.

## success on other, genre-specific charts: e. g. Snow Patrol, Incubus, The Lightning Seeds, KoRn, Queen Latifah, The Prodigy, Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, blink-182, Muse, Breaking Benjamin, and Shinedown

Despite this the marriage was a success, and on 12 August 1762, the Queen gave birth to her first child, the Prince of Wales, who would later become King George IV.

His epic story-poem, The Queen's Wake ( the setting being the return to Scotland of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1561 after her exile in France ), was published in 1813 and was a success.

After Lady Macbeth she played Desdemona, Rosalind, Ophelia and Volumnia, all with great success ; but it was as Queen Catherine in Henry VIII that she discovered a part almost as well adapted to her acting powers as that of Lady Macbeth.

He was an immediate success in England, rapidly painting a large number of portraits of the King and Queen Henrietta Maria, as well as their children.

* Rappers such as Big Pun, Ivy Queen, Don Chezina and others also enjoy success.

Montiel started in movies at 16 in her native Spain where she filmed her first international success playing an Islamic princess in the 1948 film Locura de Amor, released in the US as The Mad Queen.

Queen Margrethe II is the de jure Commander-in-Chief per the Danish constitution, however according to the Danish Defense Law the Minister of Defence serves as the commander of the Danish Defence ( through the Chief of Defence and the Defence Command ) and the Danish Home Guard ( through the Home Guard Command ).

There were exceptions to this rule however, such as the full-sized elves who appear in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter as well as Northern English and Scottish Lowlands folklore ( as seen in such tales as The Queen of Elfan's Nourice and other local variants ).

As they ascended the mountains, however, the army and the King and Queen were left horrified by the unburied corpses of the previously slaughtered German army.

Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.

This was because his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, suggested the nickname of " Nicky ", however it got mixed up with the many Nickys of the Russian Imperial Family (" Nicky " was particularly used to refer to Nicholas II, the last Tsar ) so they changed it to Dickie.

Now, the Queen of Australia is generally bound by constitutional convention to accept the advice of the Australian Prime Minister and state Premiers about Australian and state constitutional matters respectively, however the practice of Premiers advising the monarch has only become the convention since the passage of the Australia Acts ( 1986 ).

The advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power, this was last fully exercised in 1932, when Sir Philip Game dismissed Premier Jack Lang.

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

Whatever his religion, however, he was still intensely loyal to the Queen, though he seems to have had something of a grudge against her for her remark that he, Dowland, " was a man to serve any prince in the world, but was an obstinate Papist.

Philip had not reckoned with Isambour, however ; she insisted that the marriage had been consummated, and that she was his wife and the rightful Queen of France.

The following month, however, the Empress was invited by the Dowager Queen Adeliza to land at Arundel instead, and on 30 September Robert of Gloucester and the Empress arrived in England with 140 knights.

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 advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power.

Public support, however, remained with Queen Catherine.

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.

Queen Morgase, however, decides to let Rand go free.

In 1857, Queen Victoria granted him the title of Prince Consort, however he was not made a British peer.

Margaret's biographer Helen Maurer, however, disagrees with earlier historians having dated the much-vaunted enmity between the Queen and York to the time he obtained the office of the regency.

The Queen was not punished, however, and lived for many years in considerable style, although not at Edward III's court, until her death in 1358.

The Queen was Anne of Denmark, and her father, an ardent Lutheran, had stipulated that she should have the right to practice her own religion in Scotland, and for that purpose sent with her a chaplain named John Lering who, however, shortly after his arrival, became a Calvinist.

Essex underestimated the Queen, however, and his later behaviour towards her lacked due respect and showed disdain for the influence of her principal secretary, Robert Cecil.

As soon, however, as the duke had set out to meet Mary, Cecil became the most active intriguer against him, and to these efforts, of which he laid a full account before Queen Mary, he mainly owed his immunity.

Kōshaku, however, is more commonly translated as " Duke " to avoid confusion with the following royal ranks in the Imperial Household: Shinnō ( literally, King of the Blood ); female Naishinnō ( lit., Queen ( by herself ) of the Blood ); and Shinnōhi lit., Consort of King of the Blood ); or Ō ( lit., King ); female, Jyo-Ō ( lit., Queen ( by herself )); and Ōhi ( lit., Consort of King ).

The consent of the Crown must, however, be obtained before either of the houses of parliament may even debate a bill affecting the sovereign's prerogatives or interests, and no act of parliament binds the Queen or her rights unless the act states that it does.