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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 ''.
The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.
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.
Dean Thaddeus Seymour, wearing ski clothes, was crowning a beauteous damsel queen of the Carnival.
Mrs. Fenwick Eustis, whose daughter was also a maid to the queen, wore an ashes of roses slipper satin gown.
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.
Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.
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.
Amalasuntha ( also known as Amalasuentha, Amalaswintha, Amalasuintha, Amalswinthe or Amalasontha ) ( c. 495 – 30 April 534 / 535 ) was a queen of the Ostrogoths from 526 to 534.
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.
As both a foreigner and a woman, the queen was not a popular choice for regent.
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.
The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.
But Urraca was tenacious of her right as queen regnant and had not learnt chastity in the polygamous household of her father.
Although in his later years, towards the end of the Trojan War, his old opponents took his side again against the Greeks under their queen Penthesilea " of Thracian birth ", who was slain by Achilles.

queen and aristocracy
However, the young queen was forced into making significant concessions to the aristocracy.
The peace treaties were negotiated while the Swedish queen Christina was a minor, and the Swedish Empire was governed by members of the high aristocracy.
Her first act as queen was to dismiss the popular Secretary of State of the Kingdom, the Marquis of Pombal, who had broken the power of the reactionary aristocracy via the Tavora affair, partially because of Pombal's Enlightenment, anti-Jesuit policies.
Under intense pressure from the aristocracy, the king decreed in January 1843 that he would rule the country only with advice and agreement of his junior queen, Lakshmidevi, and commanded his subjects to obey her even over his own son, Surendra.
Comparable to Lear, it shows the fight of the decayed Trojan queen, Hecuba, against the Athenian empire, succeeding only when she abandons the aristocracy and the interests of the state to physically meet the proletariat and join the people's cause.

queen and wrote
Later, William of Tyre wrote of Melisende's right to rule following the death of her father that the rule of the kingdom remained in the power of the lady queen Melisende, a queen beloved by God, to whom it passed by hereditary right.
However, Euripides wrote in his tragedy Ion that the Athenian queen Creusa had inherited this vial from her ancestor Erichthonios, who was a snake himself and had received the vial from Athena.
Simón Bolívar noticed the Guadalupan theme in these uprisings, and shortly before Morelos ' execution in 1815 wrote: " the leaders of the independence struggle have put fanaticism to use by proclaiming the famous Virgin of Guadalupe as the queen of the patriots, praying to her in times of hardship and displaying her on their flags ... the veneration for this image in Mexico far exceeds the greatest reverence that the shrewdest prophet might inspire.
Anna was noted for her education by the medieval scholar, Niketas Choniates who wrote that Anna “ was ardently devoted to philosophy, the queen of all sciences, and was educated in every field.
The Observer wrote, " Louise Gold's Phyllis is versatile and formidable: injured queen one moment, vamp the next.
Curll wrote and published a broadsheet for his pillory day saying that publishing Ker's memoirs had been done out of loyalty to the old queen only, and the crowd therefore did not beat him.
Allen wrote that all Englishmen were obliged, under the pain of eternal damnation, to follow that example, as Elizabeth was " no lawful queen " in the eyes of God ( as well as of the Pope ).
When Foxe received reports from England about the ongoing religious persecution there, he wrote a pamphlet urging the English nobility to use their influence with the queen to halt it.
In 1579 he presented to Elizabeth I his Partheniades ( printed in a collection of manuscript Ballads by F. J. Furnivall ), and he wrote the treatise in question especially for the delectation of the queen and her ladies.
Thomas also wrote to Richard Palmer, bishop of Syracuse, petitioning him, an opponent of any other candidate for the Palermitan see besides himself, to work for the cause of the queen and Stephen.
Debbie Rochon, often described as a scream queen herself, wrote in an article originally published in GC Magazine that " a true Scream Queen isn't The Perfect Woman.
In 1691, French tragedian Jean Racine wrote a play about this Biblical queen, entitled Athalie.
On the windowpane, the queen dowager wrote with a diamond ring, as a hint of the plans which they did not discuss openly: One thing you want, one thing you shall ; that is the way in cases such as this, and left.
These observations were hardly neutral or dispassionate, according to Reilly, who wrote: " here is no question that the queen is in control, perhaps all too much in control, of events.
Before news of his death had reached London, the secretary of state, Lord Nottingham, wrote to Benbow in January 1703 to inform him that the queen was " extremely well pleased with your conduct and much offended with the baseness of those officers who deserted and betrayed you.
Known as Brenhines ein llên (" The queen of our literature "), she is known mainly for her short stories, but she also wrote novels.
The Old French Continuation of William of Tyre ( sometimes cited by earlier historians as the Chronicle of Ernoul, although he only wrote the portion of it which covers 1186-87 ) seems to slight her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" such a woman should not be queen of so exalted a city as Jerusalem ").
The identity of the queen who wrote the letter is uncertain.
Lehzen continued to regard Victoria with affection, and the queen wrote regularly to her former governess, weekly at first and later monthly at Lehzen's request.
Neville wrote that Gowrie would like to kiss Queen Elizabeth's hand, and said the Earl was well-affected to the Protestant religion and the English queen.
: Then wrote the queen of England
One noble wrote in his memoirs that she insisted other women sit with her, even though she was queen.
Male hostility to the woman warriors is expressed by Dictys of Crete who wrote that an Amazon queen " transgressed the boundaries of nature and of her sex.

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