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.

After an attempt to arrest the queen herself failed, Joan called Sforza who defeated the Aragonese milices near Castel Capuano in Naples.

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 ).

The conservative nature of these changes underlines the fact that Protestantism was by no means universally popular – a fact that the queen herself recognized: her revived Act of Supremacy, giving her the ambiguous title of Supreme Governor passed without difficulty, but the Act of Uniformity 1559 giving statutory force to the Prayer Book, passed through the House of Lords by only three votes.

In All's Well That Ends Well Diana appears as a figure in the play and Helena makes multiple allusions to her, such as, " Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly ..." and "... wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian / was both herself and love ..." The Steward also says, "...; Dian no queen of virgins ,/ that

The queen herself was an avid reader of all of George Eliot's novels, being so impressed with Adam Bede that she commissioned the artist Edward Henry Corbould to paint scenes from the book.

The Empress now began to take the necessary steps to have herself crowned queen in his place, which would require the agreement of the church and her coronation at Westminster.

The queen chose her second husband herself.

These personal attacks caused the queen to plunge further into the costly diversions of buying her dresses from Rose Bertin and gambling, simply to enjoy herself.

The memoirs of the queen's lady-in-waiting, Madame Campan, state explicitly that the miscarriage came about after the queen exerted herself too strenuously in closing a window in her carriage, felt that she had hurt herself, and lost the child eight days later.

Trying to calm her mind, during Fersen's first visit, and later after his return on 7 June 1784, the queen occupied herself with the creation of the Hameau de la reine, a model hamlet in the garden of the Petit Trianon with a mill and 12 cottages, 9 of which are still standing.

1262 – after 7 February 1293 ), married 1281 in Vienna to Charles Martel of Anjou, the Papal claimant to the throne of Hungary and mother of king Charles I of Hungary, as well as of queen Clementia of France, herself the mother of the baby king John I of France.

Sometime after the King's death, an imposing tomb was built for him and his queen, most likely commissioned and paid for by Queen Joan herself.

Catherine lived in the king's household, presumably so she could care for her young son, but the arrangement also enabled the councillors to watch over the queen herself.

The finest encomium was passed on him by the queen herself, when she said, " This judgment I have of you, that you will not be corrupted with any manner of gifts, and that you will be faithful to the state.

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.

" James continued " The depraved space queen Servalan ... could never quite bring herself to volatilize the dimly heroic Blake even when she had him square in the sights of her plasmatic spasm guns.

Constance of Sicily was in her own right queen of Sicily and she established herself as regent.

Meanwhile, the faith of the queen and others remained strong in the productiveness of the newly discovered territory, which she herself named Meta Incognita, and it was resolved to send out a larger expedition than ever, with all necessaries for the establishment of a colony of 100 men.

But then ( according to Apollodorus ) the goddess Hera, making herself appear as one of the Amazons, spread a rumor among them that Heracles and his crew were actually abducting their queen.

During the christening, the baby pulled Queen Matilda's headdress down on top of herself, which was seen as an omen that the younger Matilda would be queen some day as well.

Louis's mother, Marie de ' Medici, continued to conduct herself as queen of France, without showing any deference to her daughter-in-law.

Under the influence of the duchesse de Chevreuse, the queen let herself be drawn into political opposition to Richelieu and became embroiled in several intrigues against his policies.

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.

Agnes Maria of Andechs-Merania ( died 1201 ), queen of France, was the daughter of Bertold IV ( died 1204 ), who was Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria and from 1183 duke of Merania ( Istria ).

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.

If Mary and her child died, Elizabeth would become queen.

Amy Dudley died in September 1560 from a fall from a flight of stairs and, despite the coroner's inquest finding of accident, many people suspected Dudley to have arranged her death so that he could marry the queen.

At first, only Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".

However, the queen died of puerperal sepsis ten days later.

The young king Athalaric had died on 2 October 534, and an usurper, Theodahad, had imprisoned queen Amalasuntha, Theodoric's daughter and mother of Athalaric, on the island of Martana in Lake Bolsena, where he had her assassinated in 535.

Both Isabella and Amalric died in 1205 and again an underage girl, Isabella and Conrad's daughter Maria of Montferrat, became queen of Jerusalem.

Byron, commanding the British warship HMS Blonde, was returning to London from a special mission to Honolulu to repatriate the remains of the young king and queen of Hawaii, who had died of measles during a visit to Britain.

* Clothilde, queen of the Franks ( died 544 / 45 )

* Balthild, queen of the Franks ( died ca 680 ), presented in The Life of Lady Bathild, Queen of the Franks ( in Fouracre and Gerberding 1996 )

* Queen dowager, a former queen consort whose husband has died

Later in his long reign three other women became senior queen, when an ndlovukati " died, another was appointed from among his senior wives.

Sophia, a granddaughter of James VI and I, died less than two months before she would have become queen ; her claim to the thrones passed on to her eldest son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended them as George I on 1 August 1714 Old Style.

Most of Edward's council signed the Devise for the Succession, and when Edward VI died on 6 July 1553 from his battle with tuberculosis, Lady Jane was proclaimed queen.

When King Francis I died in 1547 Catherine became queen consort of France.

She was expected by tradition to spend money on her attire, so as to outshine other women at Court, being the leading example of fashion in Versailles ( the previous queen, Maria Leszczyńska, had died in 1768, two years prior to Marie Antoinette's arrival ).

Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".

* Eleanor of Castile ( died 1244 ), queen consort of Aragon, wife of James I of Aragon

James I and his queen Joan Beaufort ( died 1445 ) were both buried in the priory church, as was Queen Margaret Tudor ( died 1541 ), widow of James IV of Scotland.