Stratford's petition to the queen declared that two great fires had burnt two hundred houses in the town, with household goods, to the value of twelve thousand pounds.

A new queen, with the prosaic title of Q3, had been planned for several years to replace the Queen Mary.

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.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

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.

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.

On 25 June 1870, he was recalled to Paris, where his mother abdicated in his favour, in the presence of a number of Spanish nobles who had tied their fortunes to that of the exiled queen.

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

Alfonso tried to regain the favour of the queen, but failed, and had to wait for the death of both Louis ( at Cosenza in 1434 ) and Joan herself ( February 1435 ).

Alfonso had been in love with a woman of noble family named Lucrezia d ' Alagno, who served as a de facto queen at the Neapolitan court as well as an inspiring muse.

Andrew left for his campaign in the summer 1213 when he was informed that a group of conspirators had murdered his queen on 28 September and he had to return.

During this time the queen dowager, Baldwin III's widow Theodora, eloped with her cousin Andronicus to Damascus, and Acre, which had been in her possession, reverted back into the royal domain of Jerusalem.

Maria Comnena had borne Amalric two daughters: Isabella, who would eventually marry four husbands in turn and succeed as queen, was born in 1172 ; and a stillborn child some time later.

The king comes back in at this moment and thinks Haman is assaulting the queen ; this makes him angrier than before and he orders Haman hanged on the gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordechai.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

The human queen who had an elvish lover bore the hero Högni, and the elf-woman who was raped by Helgi bore Skuld, who married Hjörvard, Hrólfr Kraki's killer.

Elizabeth became queen at the age of 25, and declared her intentions to her Council and other peers who had come to Hatfield to swear allegiance.

An element of piracy and self-enrichment drove Elizabethan seafarers, over which the queen had little control.

If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times.

Anne had been pledged to Philip Sidney two years earlier, but after a year of negotiations Sidney's father, Sir Henry, was declining in favor with the queen and Cecil suspected financial difficulties.

On his hesitant return, the queen greeted him with: " My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

The Odyssey of Homer referred to a gift given to Helen by the Egyptian queen, a drug bringing oblivion.

Although Lermontov's depiction of the Georgian queen as a destructive seductress had no apparent historical background, it has been influential enough to raise the issue of Tamar's sexuality, a question that was given some prominence by the 19th-century European authors.

Marie Antoinette's daughter, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, given the honorific title at birth of Madame Royale, was finally born at Versailles, after a particularly difficult labour, on 19 December 1778, following an ordeal where the queen literally collapsed from suffocation and hemorrhaging.

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.

His possessions were given to a monastery, and the queen had the false Olaf's seal destroyed.

In Greek mythology, Hippolyta, Hippoliyte, or Hippolyte ( Ἱππολύτη ) was the Amazonian queen who possessed a magical girdle she was given by her father Ares, the god of war.

" When the roughneck was at last killed by Achilles, for mocking the hero's lament over the death of the Amazon queen Penthesilea, a sacred feud was fought for Thersites ' sake ": Thersites ' cousin Diomedes, enraged at Achilles ' action, harnessed Penthesilea's corpse behind his chariot, dragged it and cast it into the Scamander, whence, however, it was retrieved and given decent burial, whether by Achilles or by the Trojans is not known from our fragmentary sources.

Some question whether a queen ruling without a king is sufficient to constitute female government, given the participation of other men in most such governments.

It is assumed that Ecgfrith was given over as a hostage, into the keeping of Penda's queen Cynewise, at this time.

The two prisoners, King Stephen and Robert of Gloucester, were then exchanged, but by freeing Stephen, the Empress Matilda had given up her best chance of becoming queen.

Lewis, the queen of Harfang asks that one of the protagonists, Jill Pole, be given, "... all you can think of-possets and comfits and caraways and lullabies and toys.

Ann Reynolds ( Gerda Nicolson ) replaced Erica Davidson as a spirited, no-nonsense new governor and amongst the prisoners, previous background bit player Phyllis Hunt ( Reylene Pearce ) was given a more expanded role amidst new arrivals, such as dreamy romantic and serial bigamist Sandra " Pixie " Mason ( Judy McBurney ) and cool, villainous vice queen Sonia Stevens ( Tina Bursill ).

Nevertheless, for his services, Pezza was made a colonel in the army, ennobled as the Duke of Cassero, granted an annual pension of 2, 500 ducats, making him one of the richest men in the district, and was even given a lock of the queen ’ s hair.

Utuk ' ku is the name given to the wicked queen of the Norns in Tad Williams ' fantasy trilogy Memory, Sorrow and Thorn.

Others such as Petrie, Drioton and Vandier have suggested that Tadukhipa was given a new name after becoming the consort of Akhenaten and is to be identified the famous queen Nefertiti.

“ By contrast, no significant change in sex ratio occurred in control colonies in which male-specialist and female-specialist colonies were given a queen from the same colony type .”

The following queens were dowagers between the given dates, whether queen mothers or not:

" Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes.

The manor of Bisham Abbey in Berkshire was given to him, at the expense of the former queen, Anne of Cleves.

He only took off his pilgrim's clothes after the queen had given him permission to participate.

In accordance with ninth century West Saxon custom, she was not given the title of queen.

During her house arrest she was given more sympathy than her entire time as queen for her dignified behaviour.

Still to be decided is how much of a witch she naturally was versus how much magic was given to her by the elf queen.