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

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.

* Birthday of Queen Margrethe II ( Denmark )

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.

They had five or six children together, including Edward the Elder, who succeeded his father as king, Æthelflæd, who would become Queen of Mercia in her own right, and Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II the Count of Flanders.

Alfonso was the son of Queen Isabella II of Spain, and allegedly, of her husband and King Consort, Francis, Duke of Cádiz.

Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.

The Prince of Asturias, Alfonso, is the person chosen to develop the new roadmap proposed by Canovas, which led to the June 1870 abdication of Queen Isabel II in favour of her son Prince Alfonso.

In 1421 Queen Joan II of Naples, who had no children, adopted and named him as heir to the Kingdom of Naples, and Alfonso went to Naples.

His maternal grandparents were King Levon II of Armenia and Queen Keran of Armenia.

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

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.

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.

* Queen Caroline, consort of King George II of Great Britain was born in Ansbach in 1683.

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.

In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II of Denmark, appealing for the sovereign to halt the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.

* 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.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

It also created the opportunity to redevelop the vacant space in Robert Smirke's 19th-century central quadrangle into the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court – the largest covered square in Europe – which opened in 2000.

The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partners.

The group's second LP, Queen II, was released in 1974, and features rock photographer Mick Rock's iconic image of the band on the cover.

It again borrowed the name of a Marx Brothers movie, and its cover was similar to that of A Night at the Opera, a variation on the same Queen Crest.

Queen Zenobia flees under cover of darkness to Emesa ( Syria ).

The performance consisted of three Purple Rain tracks (" Let's Go Crazy ", " Baby I'm a Star " and the title track ), along with cover versions of " We Will Rock You " by Queen, " All Along the Watchtower " by Bob Dylan, the Foo Fighters song " Best of You " and " Proud Mary " by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

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

In certain contexts it may be used to cover the whole period of the later Stuart monarchs as far as the death of Queen Anne and the accession of the Hanoverian George I in 1714 ; for example Restoration comedy typically encompasses works written as late as 1710.

In A new way to pay the National Debt ( 1786 ), James Gillray caricatured Queen Charlotte and George III awash with treasury funds to cover royal debts, with Pitt handing them another moneybag.

Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to cover and 145 galleries.

The same month, she made the cover of Time magazine with the headline " America's New Queen of Comedy ".

This photograph was cited by Mick Rock as the inspiration for the iconic Queen II album cover. Dietrich starred in six films directed by von Sternberg at Paramount between 1930 and 1935: von Sternberg worked very effectively with Dietrich to create the image of a glamorous femme fatale.

Freas ' artwork was typically better known in the science fiction community ( one of his magazine covers was adapted for an album cover by rock band Queen ) and as one of the artists who was responsible for the iconic Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman.

New or cover versions such as John Paul Young's " Love Is in the Air " occur in Strictly Ballroom, Candi Staton's " Young Hearts Run Free " appear in Romeo + Juliet, and adaptations of artists such as Nat King Cole, Nirvana, Kiss, Elton John, Thelma Houston, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, T. Rex, David Bowie, Queen and The Police are used in Moulin Rouge!

( which uses the previously banned album cover instead of the censored one ) has the extra track " Livin ' For The Minute " and an interview with the band, and Flesh and Blood features two extra tracks: an alternate version of " Something to Believe In " and an instrumental cover of the Sex Pistols ' " God Save the Queen ".

The Nazz album cover is also rumored to have inspired that of KISS ' debut as well as Queen's Queen II.

The album cover featured an iconic picture of U-Roy disappearing in a thick cloud of cannabis smoke while holding a chalice, and included the song " Chalice in the Palace ", which in a satirical manner he imagines smoking ganja with Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in Buckingham Palace.

While the Foo Fighters were on break, Hawkins played in a three piece cover band, Chevy Metal, that played lesser known tracks by ZZ Top, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Queen, and Black Sabbath.

Minnesota Republican Congresswoman and Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine in August 2011, dubbed " the Queen of Rage ".

In September 2010, three songs —" Drama Queen ," " No Apologies ," and " Storyteller "— were made available on the band's website, along with the cover art for " No Apologies ".

In A new way to pay the National Debt ( 1786 ), James Gillray caricatured Queen Charlotte and George III awash with treasury funds to cover royal debts, with William Pitt the Younger | Pitt handing them another moneybag.

Friedman is a big fan of The Ramones ( to whom he briefly paid tribute in the Arizona based cover band Rocket to Russia ), Black Sabbath, Kiss and Queen ( during their early years ).

Heart performed a cover of the song at least once in 1976 ; the 2004 reissue of the band's album Little Queen includes a recording as a bonus track.

Princess Alexandra receives £ 225, 000 per year from the Civil List to cover the cost of official expenses ; although like the other members of the Royal Family ( except the Duke of Edinburgh ) the Queen repays this amount to the Treasury.

Soon after her husband ’ s ascent to the throne, Queen Fawzia appeared on the cover of the 21 September 1942, issue of Life magazine, photographed by Cecil Beaton, who described her as an “ Asian Venus ” with “ a perfect heart-shaped face and strangely pale but piercing blue eyes .”