The mother of young queen, Mrs. G. Henry Pierson Jr. chose a white brocade gown made on slim lines with panels of tomato-red and bright green satin extending down the back.

Mrs. Peter Feringa Jr., last year's Achaeans' queen, chose an eggshell white filmy lace short dress made with a wide decolletage trimmed with an edging of tulle.

For his wife and queen, King Xerxes chose Esther, an orphan raised by her cousin Mordecai, to replace the recalcitrant Queen Vashti.

Although his work in the film earned him comparisons to Ralph Fiennes ' portrayal of Nazi Amon Göth in Schindler's List ( 1993 ) and mention of a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, reaching beyond being typecast as an historical villain, Isaacs chose to play a drag queen in his next project, Sweet November ( 2001 ), a romantic comedy-drama starring Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves.

In 1504, Queen Isabella died, and although Ferdinand tried to maintain his position over Castile in the wake of her death, the Castilian Cortes Generales ( the royal court of Spain ) chose to crown Isabella's daughter Joanna queen.

In 1407, John the Fearless assassinated Orléans and the queen began losing power, and when she finally chose to side with the Burgundians, she was removed from Paris and imprisoned by the Armagnacs.

Despite being a nun she had many ambitious suitors, but she chose another Alexios, the prōtosebastos and prōtovestiarios, a nephew of Manuel and uncle of Maria Komnene, former queen of Jerusalem, as an advisor and lover, causing a scandal among the Greek population.

Mary boldly chose the queen, telling her that she represented Affection ( which then meant passionate love ), to which the queen replied " Affection?

When Mary became queen she chose to banish her own half-sister to Richmond Palace.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffeecup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers.

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

Once she has made up her mind, the queen starts out by constructing, in her chosen abode, a small `` floor '' of dried grass or some woolly material.

The queen afterward keeps incubating and guarding her eggs like a mother hen, taking a sip from time to time from the rather liquid honey in her honey pots.

Niobe, the queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two.

Aeneas had a year-long affair with the Carthaginian queen Dido ( also known as Elissa ), who proposed that the Trojans settle in her land and that she and Aeneas reign jointly over their peoples.

Tiberius took Agrippina by her hand and quoted the Greek line: “ And if you are not queen, my dear, have I then you wrong ?”

Alexander died in a fall from his horse in the dark while riding to visit the queen at Kinghorn in Fife on 18 March 1286 because it was her birthday the next day.

Now queen, Amalasuntha made her cousin Theodahad partner of her throne ( not, as sometimes stated, her husband, for his wife was still living ), with the intent of strengthening her position.

But her paternity was questioned, as rumour said the king was impotent and the queen, Joan of Portugal, had an amorous affair with a nobleman named Beltrán de La Cueva.

The first one was the fact that queen Isabel II was a woman, and her father, king Ferdinand VII, had modified the Succession Law in order for her to be queen, excluding his brother Carlos.

But Urraca was tenacious of her right as queen regnant and had not learnt chastity in the polygamous household of her father.

The final conflict was provoked by Antony, who is said to have been persuaded by his lover, the queen Cleopatra of Egypt, to retire to her land and give battle to mask his retreat ; but lack of provisions and the growing demoralization of his army would eventually account for this decision.

His second wife was Omphale, the Lydian queen or princess to whom he was delivered as a slave.

* January 25 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn, who becomes his second queen consort.

* Ferdinand II of Portugal ( 1816 – 1885 ), second husband of queen Maria II.

But since Adam is the only source to state the identity of Cnut's with Olof Skötkonung's mother, this is often seen as an error of Adam, and it is often assumed that Sweyn had two wives, the first being Cnut's mother, and the second being the former queen of Sweden.

The second wife of King Septimius Odaenathus, Zenobia became queen of the Palmyrene Empire following Odaenathus ' death in 267.

Through her father, Marie Antoinette became the second ( after Margaret of Valois, the renowned Queen Margot ) French queen ever to descend from Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.

His younger half-sister Catherine, the daughter of his father's second wife, Constance of Castile, was queen consort of Castile.

It was rare in ninth century Wessex for the king's wife to be given the title queen, and it is only definitely known to have been given to Æthelwulf's second wife, Judith of Flanders.

After the death of Parr's second husband, Catherine began a relationship with Sir Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, but the King took a liking to her and she saw it as her duty to accept Henry's proposal over Seymour's.

The Scandinavian Defense, which in the main line features queen moves by Black on the second and third moves, is considered sound and has been played at world championship level.

When the correct piece is not available, some substitute is used: a second queen is often indicated by inverting a previously captured rook or a piece is borrowed from another set.

Elizabeth Woodville's arms as queen consort, the royal arms of England Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling Wooville ( Quartlerly, first argent, a lion rampant double queued gules, crowned or ( Luxemburg, her mother ’ s family ), second quarterly, I and IV, gules a star if eight points argent ; II and III, azure, semée of fleurs de lys or ; third, barry argent and azure, overall a lion rampant gules ; fourth, gules, three bendlets argent, on a chief of the first, charged with a fillet in base or, a rose of the second ( here shown in inverse: the rose should be argent on a chief gules ); fifth, three pallets vairy, on a chief or a label of five points azure, and sixth, a fess and a canton conjoined gules ( Woodville ))

Isabella of Angoulême (, ; c. 1188 – 31 May 1246 ) was queen consort of England as the second wife of King John from 1200 until John's death in 1216.

Magnus, whose birth year has never been confirmed in modern times, was probably the second son of Birger Jarl ( Birger Magnuson, 1200 – 66 ) and Princess Ingeborg, herself the sister of the childless king Eric Ericson of Sweden, thus a daughter of king Eric the Survivor and his queen, Richeza of Denmark.

She became queen consort when her second husband became King Richard III of England.

This was changed during the Liberal regime in the 19th century ( with queen Maria II ), when the first infante ( second son of the monarch ) got the title of Duke of Porto and the second infante ( third son ) was known as Duke of Beja.

Disambiguation of pieces using notations like QBP and KR becomes awkward once they have moved away from their starting positions ( or starting files, for pawns ) and is impossible for pieces created by promotion ( such as a second queen ).

It has been noted by some historians that her brother Henry, then a child, second in line to the throne and Duke of York, threw a tantrum when he realised his sister, as a foreign queen, now held higher precedence in court than he.

Mary of Guise () ( 22 November 1515 – 11 June 1560 ) was a queen consort of Scotland as the second spouse of King James V. She was the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and served as regent of Scotland in her daughter's name from 1554 to 1560.

Anne Boleyn, the second queen consort of King Henry VIII of England, spent her early youth there, after her father, Thomas Boleyn had inherited it in 1505.

), was a Jewish client queen of the Roman Empire during the second half of the 1st century.

* Mary of Guise ( also called Marie de Guise ) ( 1515 – 1560 ), queen consort and regent of Scotland, the daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise ; second wife of James V of Scotland ; and the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots