In 1780, he painted the portraits of King George III and his queen and afterwards received many royal commissions.

Wren did not pursue his work on architectural design as actively as he had before the 1690s, although he still played important roles in a number of royal commissions.

Dobson was only able to make a modest living in the 1630s, but when Van Dyck died in 1641, he was able to get more royal commissions.

As part of his royal duties, he holds commissions in the Dutch Army ( as brigadier ), Navy ( as commandeur ) and Air Force ( as commodore ).

As he rose through the royal architectural establishment, the Board of Works, Kent applied this style to several public buildings in London, for which Burlington's patronage secured him the commissions: the Royal Mews at Charing Cross ( 1731 – 33, demolished in 1830 ), the Treasury buildings in Whitehall ( 1733 – 37 ), the Horse Guards building in Whitehall, ( designed shortly before his death and built 1750 – 1759 ).

The abundance of such tombs, often with more than one being associated with a settlement during one specific time period, may indicate that their use was not confined to the ruling monarchy only, although the sheer size and therefore the outlay required for the larger tombs ( ranging from about 10 meters to about 15 meters in diameter and height ) would argue in favour of royal commissions.

He was attended by his council, headed by the temporary Chancellor ... the new chief justice ... the royal chancery ... Their formidable task in Chelmsford was to draft, engross, date, seal and despatch by messengers riding to the farthest corners of the realm, the daily batches of commissions, mandates, letters, orders and proclamations issued by the government not only to speed the process of pacification of the kingdom, but to conduct much ordinary day to day business of the Crown and Government.

Two significant secular commissions helped establish the firm's reputation in the late 1860s: a royal project at St. James's Palace and the " green dining room " at the South Kensington Museum ( now the Victoria and Albert ) of 1867 which featured stained glass windows and panel figures by Burne-Jones.

Only after achieving this status did Jordeans receive royal commissions, predominantly from the north.

In the privacy of royal commissions, he continued to elaborate schemes for constitutions that never saw the light ; but Germany, disillusioned, regarded him as an adherent of Metternich, an accomplice in the policy of the Carlsbad Decrees and the Troppau Protocol.

He moved to Deptford, England around 1667, and by 1693 had accepted commissions from the royal family and had been appointed as a master carver.

His time was also much occupied with portraiture, many of his works of this class being royal commissions.

He had royal commissions as justice of the peace and colonel of militia.

A second was made in the reign of his son and successor, Afonso III ( 1248 – 1279 ), under the Inquirições or royal commissions in 1258, intending to base the territory of Trás-os-Montes on so-called " new towns " under direct control of the Crown.

* In 2010, he stated " No royal commissions this week " in reference to the recent newspaper story in the News of the World which revealed that the former Duchess of York had taken cash payments for introducing businessmen to the Duke of York.

Just as many works of art in the Italian Renaissance were commissioned by royalty and the Roman Catholic Church, much music was likewise composed on the basis of such commissions — incidental court music, music for coronations, for the birth of a royal heir, royal marches, and other occasions.

Mr Fraser was answering a question about two joint royal commissions being conducted in Victoria at the time.

In 1989 the CBC and a consortium of cable companies made a joint proposal for the creation of a new entity, the Canadian Parliamentary Channel ( CPaC ) that would carry the proceedings of the House of Commons and committees, along with proceedings of royal commissions, enquiries, court hearings and provincial legislatures and public affairs programming.

He acted as chairman of two royal commissions, one on Indian currency, the other on vaccination.

A product of the centralization policies of the French crown, intendants were appointed " commissions ," and not purchasable hereditary " offices ," which thus prevented the abuse of sales of royal offices and made them more tractable and subservient emissaries of the king.

Following the death in 1714 of Queen Anne, Dudley's commission and that of Lieutenant Governor William Tailer, like most royal commissions, expired six months later.

Harrowby was also three times President of the Royal Statistical Society ( 1840 – 1842, 1849 – 1851, 1855 – 1857 ), chairman of the Maynooth commission and a member of other important royal commissions.

He served on several royal commissions appointed to consider educational questions, in which he was keenly interested, and from 1896 to 1902 was vice-chancellor of the University of London.

During the Ottoman period, Bursa continued to be the source of most royal silk products.

After Victoria's death, the royal family continued to use Balmoral during annual autumn visits.

However, Thomas Seymour continued scheming to control the royal family and tried to have himself appointed the governor of the King ’ s person.

With the emergence of monarchy at the beginning of Iron Age II the king promoted his own family god, Yahweh, as the god of the kingdom, but beyond the royal court religion continued to be both polytheistic and family-centered, as it was also for other societies in the Ancient Near East.

Isabella continued to use Kenilworth as a royal castle until her fall from power in 1330.

Many castles, especially royal castles were left to decay in the 15th century ; Kenilworth, however, continued to be used as a centre of choice, forming a late medieval " palace fortress ".

This honour continued until Henry VIII resumed the manor, although it was later regranted it was without the royal service.

The Merina royal tradition of taxes paid in the form of labor was continued under the French and used to construct a railway and roads linking key coastal cities to Antananarivo.

In France, economic control remained in the hands of the royal family and mercantilism continued until the French Revolution.

News of Mary's betrothal to Louis provoked open oppposition from the House of Lacković, the master of the treasury Nicholas Zambo and the judge royal Nicholas Szécsi and continued to support Sigismund, now putting Hungary on the verge of civil war.

However, when Queen Victoria visited distinguished residents in the Coombe Hill area, the royal train always continued to Norbiton station where the platform was at ground level.

He protested the trial of churchmen before Philip's royal courts and the continued use of church funds for state purposes and he announced he would summon the bishops and abbots of France to take measures " for the preservation of the liberties of the Church ".

Sixtus continued a dispute with King Louis XI of France, who upheld the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges ( 1438 ), according to which papal decrees needed royal assent before they could be promulgated in France.

Queen Beatrix, who had been rushed to safety with the rest of the royal family, returned once the situation was under control and the ceremony was continued.

The reforming movement within the church, which advocated greater autonomy from royal authority for the clergy, had continued to grow, while new voices such as the Cistercians had gained additional prestige within the monastic orders, eclipsing older orders such as the Cluniacs.

The security and continued prosperity of the wealthy estate must have necessitated formal ties with local kings or chieftains, which explains the adoption of the distinctly Thracian royal name " Όloros " into the family.

After the House of Burgesses was dissolved by the royal governor in 1774, Virginia's revolutionary leaders continued to govern via the Virginia Conventions.

The Bermudians on the Turks continued to be governed under their own regulations, with the assent of the royal agent, until 1780, when a more formal version of those regulations was submitted for the assent of the Crown, which was given.

Mazarin continued the policies of Richelieu, bringing the Thirty Years ' War to a successful conclusion in 1648 and defeating the noble challenge to royal absolutism in a series of civil wars known as the Fronde.

: During the fighting the King Louis lost his small and famous royal guard, but he remained in good heart and nimbly and courageously scaled the side of the mountain by gripping the tree roots … The enemy climbed after him, hoping to capture him, and the enemy in the distance continued to fire arrows at him.

It is thought that the Æellingi ( the South Saxon royal house ) continued to govern Sussex as eorldermen ( earls ) under West Saxon sovereignty until the Norman Conquest in 1066.

Despite the decline of European settlement and the loss of contact, Denmark – Norway continued to maintain its claim to lordship of Greenland: in the 1660s, a polar bear was added to the royal coat of arms.

He gave them all the royal title and assigned lands to them, which they were to govern as his representatives ; but this arrangement did not put an end to the discord, which continued into the next reign.

Dunmore actively served as royal governor of the Colony of Virginia from 25 September 1771 until his departure to New York in 1776 ; he continued to hold the position and to draw his pay until 1783 when American independence was recognized.

The chambre introuvable, meanwhile, continued to aggressively uphold the place of the monarchy and the church, and called for more commemorations for historical royal figures.