The world's best-selling mystery writer, and often referred to as the “ Queen of Crime ”, Agatha Christie is considered a master of suspense, plotting, and characterisation.

The fairy queen is often called the " Queen of Elphame " in ballads such as that of Thomas the Rhymer:

Also, Mary, Queen of Scots, visited nearby Inchmahome Priory often as a child, and during her short reign.

During the series, he often comes into contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain Lord Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former nanny Nursie ( Patsy Byrne ).

His moralism often angered his upper-class opponents ( including Queen Victoria ), and his heavy-handed control split the Liberal party.

The 18th-century author Charles Johnson claimed that Teach was for some time a sailor operating from Jamaica on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War, and that " he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage ".

The Lodge has been in the news periodically since 2005, because the Queen often spends the first few days of her summer holiday in the lodge.

Bet stood as the central character of the show from 1985 until departing in 1995, often being dubbed as " Queen of the Street " by the media, and indeed herself.

Muffled drums are often associated with funeral ceremonies as well, such as the funerals of John F. Kennedy and Queen Victoria.

Scholars have often speculated that Hamlet < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s Polonius might have been inspired by William Cecil ( Lord Burghley )— Lord High Treasurer and chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. E. K. Chambers suggested Polonius's advice to Laertes may have echoed Burghley's to his son Robert Cecil.

As to the traditional discussion on semantic externalism ( often dubbed content externalism ), some mental states, such as believing that water is wet, and fearing that the Queen has been insulted, have contents we can capture using ' that ' clauses.

Anne of Brittany, Queen consort of Louis XII often copied Isabella, who had a fashion doll made in her likeness.

The stone then was mounted in a brooch which Queen Victoria often wore.

" The period featured various but often disjointed efforts by the court of Queen Elizabeth to develop a naval and merchant fleet capable of challenging the Spanish stranglehold on trade and of expanding the growth of bullion at home.

Accordingly, Morrígan is often translated as " Phantom Queen ".

In the Middle Irish period the name is often spelled Mórrígan with a lengthening diacritic over the ' o ', seemingly intended to mean " Great Queen " ( Old Irish mór, ' great '; this would derive from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic * Māra Rīganī-s ).

His moralism often angered his upper-class opponents ( including Queen Victoria, who strongly favoured Disraeli ), and his heavy-handed control split the Liberal party.

In British America, wars were often named after the sitting British monarch, such as King William's War or Queen Anne's War.

By 1976, Queen were back in the studio recording A Day at the Races, which is often regarded as a sequel album to A Night at the Opera.

Queen composed music that drew inspiration from many different genres of music, often with a tongue-in-cheek attitude.

As representatives of HM The Queen, they often also join the nation in commemorating historical events, holidays, celebratory and tragic occurrences, and may also sponsor or participate in numerous charitable, cultural and social activities.

van Buren a name often used by his grandmother Queen Juliana.

Queen Isabella appeared with a major role in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, and thereafter has been frequently used as a character in plays, books and films, often portrayed as beautiful but manipulative or wicked.

The Queen rarely visited her, although Elizabeth's daughter Viscountess Welles is known to have done so more often.

The Great Exhibition, as it is often called, was an idea of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, and is usually considered as the first international exhibition of manufactured products.

That said, according to Lord Wyatt, this was to be expected as the Queen Mother was " the most right-wing member of the Royal Family.

With DeMille renowned for his flamboyance and showmanship, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury famously said of his band, " We're the Cecil B. DeMille of rock and roll, always wanting to do things bigger and better ".

" Panner's order said activities of The Church of the Holy Light of the Queen are legal and protected under freedom of religion.

It was said that Amy Robsart, his wife, was suffering from a " malady in one of her breasts ", and that the Queen would like to marry Dudley if his wife should die.

It is said that Queen Victoria got to know her future husband, Prince Albert, better through a series of ice skating trips.

Further, as executive power is constitutionally vested in the monarch, meaning the Royal Prerogative belongs to the Crown and not to any of its ministers, the sovereign's supremacy over the prime minister in the constitutional order is thus seen as a " rebuff to the pretensions of the elected: As it has been said, when the Prime Minister bows before the Queen, he bows before us Canadian people.

This dynasty is said to have been founded in the 10th century BC by Menelik I, the son of the Biblical King Solomon and Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, who had visited Solomon in Israel.

In her answers to the questions from Queen Elizabeth I, Ní Mháille said she was Risdeárd's widow.

* Queen Himiko ( aka, Pimiko ) is said to have begun her reign in Japan.

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 ".

Elizabeth I's charter of 1573 describes the school's purpose thus: < BLOCKQUOTE > " a grammar school which shall be called The Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth for the education, bringing up and instruction of boys and youth, to be brought up in grammar and other learning, and the same to continue for ever, and the said School for one Master and one Usher for ever to continue and remain and that there shall be for ever four-and-twenty discreet, honest governors of the said Free Grammar School.

Dunstan was said to have questioned Edgar's marriage to Queen Dowager Ælfthryth and the legitimacy of their son Æthelred.

Joshua Barnes, a medieval writer, said " Queen Philippa was a very good and charming person that exceeded most ladies for sweetness of nature and virtuous disposition.

Abercromby was brought into prominence chiefly by the fact that he is said to have converted the Queen of James I of England, when that monarch was as yet James VI of Scotland.

Queen Margaret is said to have spent the night at Gobes Hall, before hastily taking refuge on the day of battle in a religious house some distance from the battlefield.

His death came entirely unexpected, though, and only a week earlier he had said farewell to his Queen.

Probably the Queen had more to do with this rumour than Cecil, though he is said to have opposed, in the parliament of 1555 ( in which he represented Lincolnshire ), a bill for the confiscation of the estates of the Protestant refugees.

Upon receiving the knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 1 December 2005, he said he was " humbled " by the " fantastic tribute ".

He believed nothing he said would influence Whitlam, and feared that if Whitlam perceived him as a possible opponent, the Prime Minister would procure his dismissal from the Queen.

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

Hercules ( who is said to be the ancestor of Antony ) was forced to wear Queen Omphale's clothing while he was her indentured servant.

Also known as " Queen of the stars ", she is said to be too beautiful for words ; within her face radiates the light of Ilúvatar ( God ).

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

More than half the respondents, 56 %, said Australia should become a republic as soon as possible while 31 % said it should happen after the Queen dies.