* The 1939 film The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex dramatised the Queen's relationship with Devereux, starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn ; it is based on Maxwell Anderson's 1930 play Elizabeth the Queen and Lytton Strachey's romantic account Elizabeth and Essex.

The reply from the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Martin Charteris, dated 17 November 1975, stated:

Today, the Queen's Private Apartments are open to the public and include her bathroom and bedroom.

The memoirs of Private Matthew Bishop, of the Queen's Regiment, contained an account that recalled: " the French were well prepared to give us a warm salute.

John Brunt joined the army when he left school, training as a Private with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1941, and got his commission on 2 January 1943 and was posted to North Africa.

Parkes thus remained a Private in the 4th Light Dragoons ( from 1861, the 4th Hussars-The Queen's Own ) throughout his career.

He served in the Canadian Forces in World War II, as a Private in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and a Lieutenant Colonel with the R. C. O. C.

The complex incorporated a number of historic London buildings, including the London Pavilion, that have in the past hosted the Palace of Varieties, the New Private Subscription Theatre, the Royal Albion Theatre, the New Queen's Theatre, the Argyll Subscription Rooms, the Trocadero Music Hall, the Royal Trocadero Music Hall, the Eden Theatre and the Trocadero Restaurant.

Private education is available at Queen's College.

The Defence Services Secretary is answerable to the Sovereign's Private Secretary for all matters concerning the Sovereign's relationship ( under the Royal Prerogative ) with the Armed Forces and Ministry of Defence, such as appointments within the Armed Forces, amendments to Queen's Regulations, the submission of service invitations to the Royal Family, and arrangements for royal appointments within the services, and for attendance on the Sovereign during service visits.

Depending upon the seniority of their political principal, a Private Secretary may him or herself be regarded as an important official in their own right ; the Queen's Private Secretary and the Downing Street Private Secretary being the most important.

In the 2008 New Year's Honours List of New Zealand, Lord Janvrin was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for " services to New Zealand as Private Secretary to The Queen ".

Responding to an appeal to boost Canada's Reserve Army, he joined The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada as a Private and later accompanied his unit to camp at Niagara as Corporal Conboy.

The fire began in The Queen's Private Chapel at 11: 33 am on Friday 20 November 1992, when a spotlight ignited a curtain.

Apartments burnt included the Crimson Drawing Room ( which was completely gutted ), the Green Drawing Room ( badly damaged, though only partially destroyed, by smoke and water ), and The Queen's Private Chapel ( including the double sided nineteenth century Henry Willis organ in the gallery between St George's Hall and Private Chapel, oak panelling, glass, and the altar ).

There were to be new designs for the St George's Hall ceiling ( with steel reinforcing beams in the roof ) and East Screen, also The Queen's Private Chapel, Stuart and Holbein Room.

However, only The Queen's Private Chapel and several modern rooms were to be restored in a modern style.

New designs for St George's Hall ( the principal reception room in the palace ), and The Queen's Private Chapel, were approved by The Queen on 24 January 1995.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the Queen's Secretary of State and Oxford's father-in-law, c. 1571.

* July 19 – William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, announces that Michael Trestrail ( the Queen's bodyguard ) has resigned from the Metropolitan Police Service over a relationship with a male prostitute.

The Queen's commission for the governor general-designate is then read aloud by the Secretary to the Governor General and the required oaths are administered to the appointee by either the chief justice or one of the puisne justices of the Supreme Court ; the three oaths are: the Oath of Allegiance, the Oath of Office as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief, and the Oath as Keeper of the Great Seal of Canada.

Along with the Canadian Secretary to the Queen, the monarch's entourage includes two ladies-in-waiting, the Canadian Equerry-in-Waiting to the Queen, the Queen's Police Officer, the Duke of Edinburgh's Police Officer, the Queen's Honorary Physician, the Queen's Honorary Dental Surgeon, and the Queen's Honorary Nursing Officer — the latter three being drawn from the Canadian Forces.

He is assisted by the Queen's Secretary, who is mainly responsible for proposing and preparing the Queen's audiences and visits.

It should be emphasised that Harcourt did not receive the confession directly ( he was nine at the time that Macleod died ) but that it passed ( if it did ) from Macleod's sister to the wife of Henry Ponsonby, the Queen's private secretary, and thence to Harcourt's father Sir William Harcourt, the then Home Secretary.

The appointment of Queen's Counsel is made on the recommendation of the Lord Justice General to the First Minister of Scotland, formerly the Secretary of State for Scotland.

The Queen's Speech, which followed the 2010 UK General Election, included proposals for a bill to allow the Secretary of State for Education to approve schools, both Primary and Secondary, that have been graded " outstanding " by Ofsted, to become academies.

Marlborough was an officer in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars and fought in the Second Boer War as a Staff Captain in the Imperial Yeomanry and as Assistant Military Secretary to Lord Roberts ; he was mentioned in despatches.

Succeeding these two individuals are the five officials of the organization: the Chancellor, occupied by the Lord Chamberlain ; the Secretary, occupied by the Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the Queen ; the Registrar, occupied by the Secretary to the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood ; the Chaplain, occupied by the Chaplain of the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy ; and the Genealogist.

In 1880, he was elevated to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, serving first as president of the Queen's Privy Council of Canada, and then as Secretary of State for Canada.

The group, however, was not anti-royalist ; for instance, the society's President in 1959 requested, with the support of the Mayor of Quebec City, that Elizabeth II, Canada's queen, light the main bonfire on the eve of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ; though the petition was ultimately rejected by Howard Graham, the Queen's Canadian Secretary at the time.

At various times the Secretary of State for Canada was responsible for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the civil service, the Queen's Printer for Canada, administration of Crown lands, governance of Canadian Indians ( as they were called ) as well as various ceremonial and state duties.

* The Queen's Secretary ( 1916 )

He made the office of Secretary of State for War superior to the Army's commander in Chief ; the commander was His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge ( 1819 – 1904 ), the Queen's first cousin, and an opponent of the reforms.

The Secretary General from 1997 to 2006, Iqbal Sacranie, received a knighthood in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours for his longstanding service to the community and interfaith dialogue.

Kirby returned to public service in the 1980s as Secretary to the Canadian Cabinet for Federal-Provincial Relations and Deputy Clerk of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

Historic Royal Palaces is contracted by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to manage the palaces on The Queen's behalf.

The Queen's reaction to this has never been known and she never commented on it, but she withdrew from court and devoted herself to religion and charity.

In The Times, Howes commented, " The duties of a Master of the Queen's Music are what he chooses to make of them, but they include the composition of ceremonial and occasional music ".

Interviewed by Time about Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazines new companion, Boucher looked ahead to monthly publication and commented, " The detective story is getting into a blind alley of repetition.

" When Amelia was three, Fanny Burney, the Queen's Keeper of the Robes, commented that the princess could be " decorous and dignified when called upon to act en princess to any strangers, as if conscious of her high rank, and the importance of condescendingly sustaining it.

Noted Canadian author and historian Pierre Berton commented that University Avenue " was rendered antiseptic by the presence of hospitals and insurance offices ... the pristine display of wall-to-wall concrete that ran from Front Street to Queen's Park.

Its contribution was highly commented on in the St. John's Review, which remarked that " to thousands of former students, many of whom are leaders in commerce and public life of the Colony, to be without King's and Queen's was to be like an Englishman without his Oxford and Cambridge and an American without his Yale and Harvard.