He agreed to become a Catholic when offered the Polish crown and the child queen Jadwiga by leading Polish nobles, who were eager to take advantage of Lithuania's expansion.

France agreed to stop supporting the Stuart pretenders to the British throne, instead recognizing Anne as the legitimate queen.

" Baldwin expressed his belief that Mrs. Simpson would be unacceptable to the British people as queen, but agreed to take further soundings.

The Empress Matilda was forced to retreat from London by hostile crowds before she could be crowned queen ; shortly afterwards, Robert was captured at the rout of Winchester and the two sides agreed to swap their respective captives.

The leaders of the Haute Cour agreed, and Sibylla was crowned thereafter as queen regnant.

It was agreed that there would be an officially opening day in May 2011 to present queen Nandi ’ s grave after the approval of the designs suggested by abaHlongo.

At the end the Glorious Revolution in 1688, the new king and queen, William and Mary agreed to abolish nearly all remaining monopolies and signed the English Bill of Rights 1689 and eliminated the hearth tax marking a new level co-operation and power sharing between the Parliament and the English monarchs.

Kalidas readily agreed, and they presented him to the queen, saying that Kalidas would only communicate by way of gestures.

Isabeau of Bavaria, Charles VI's queen, whose participation in the negotiations was merely formal, agreed to the treaty disinheriting her son, hoping that if the dynasties were joined through Henry V the war could be ended and leave France in the hands of a vigorous and able king.

One account holds that while Ecgfrith initially agreed that Æthelthryth should continue to remain a virgin, in about 672 he wished to consummate their marriage and even attempted to bribe Wilfrid to use his influence on the queen to convince her.

Sometime after the Battle of Bhangani, Rani Champa, the dowager queen of Bilaspur requested the Guru to return to Anandpur Sahib, or Chakk Nanaki, as it was then called, the Guru agreed.

Between 30 April and 21 May the preliminaries were agreed to between Great Britain, France and the Dutch Republic, and to these Maria Theresa, queen of Bohemia and Hungary, the kings of Sardinia and Spain, the duke of Modena, and the republic of Genoa successively gave their adhesion.

Inspired by the character detour from her usual roles, she agreed to play a washed-up former beauty queen in The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park ( 2004 ), directed by Christopher Coppola.

A ransom treaty of 60, 000 marks ( an enormous sum ) was agreed at Durham on 28 March 1424 to which James attached his own seal — he and his queen accompanied by an escort of English and Scottish nobles proceeded to Melrose Abbey arriving on 5 April where he met Albany to receive the governor's seal of office.

Chigorin lost his queen on move 10 ( see diagram ), but Schiffers played so weakly that Chigorin later missed a brilliant forced mate and only escaped when Schiffers agreed to a draw in a winning position.

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.

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.

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.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

Akbar and his queen used to come here by foot on pilgrimage from Agra every year in observance of a vow when he prayed for a son.

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 chessboard is placed with a light square at the right-hand end of the rank nearest to each player, and the pieces are set out as shown in the diagram, with each queen on its own color.

Examples of species listed on Appendix II are the Great White Shark ( Carcharadon carcharias ), the American black bear ( Ursus americanus ), Hartmann's mountain zebra ( Equus hartmannae ), African grey parrot ( Psittacus erithacus ), green iguana ( Iguana iguana ), queen conch ( Strombus gigas ), Mertens ' Water Monitor ( Varanus mertensi ), bigleaf mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla ) and Lignum Vitae " ironwood " ( Guaiacum officinale ).

Thus in Hippolytus, a love-sick queen rationalizes her position and arrives at this comment on intrinsic merit while reflecting on adultery:

Now queen dowager, Eleanor acted as a regent while Richard went on the Third Crusade.

If, on the other hand, Mary gave birth to a healthy child, Elizabeth's chances of becoming queen would recede sharply.

He intended to seize the queen but few rallied to his support, and he was beheaded on 25 February.

This showed a person dressed as the queen placing her head on the execution block in front of a small group of bystanders in Elizabethan dress.

The influence of the grateful new queen being actively exerted on Alberoni's behalf — the princesse des Ursins having been chased out — within not much more than a year Alberoni was made a duke and grandee of Spain, a member of the king's council, appointed bishop of Málaga, and in 1715 prime minister, and was made cardinal by Pope Clement XI, under pressure from the court of Spain, in July 1717.

As his sister Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was queen of Sweden, George William had to maneuver between requests of assistance from his Protestant brother-in-law King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his own Protestant counsellors on one side and his Catholic chancellor Count Adam von Schwarzenberg on the other.

By now, the king was convinced that his marriage was hexed, and having already found a new queen, Jane Seymour, he put Anne in the Tower of London on charges of witchcraft.

" In the story, a devil is hiding within a pagan idol, and bound by Bartholomew's spiritual powers to acknowledge himself and confess, the devil refers to Jesus as the one which " made war on Hel our queen " ( Old Norse heriaði a Hel drottning vara ).

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.

The story concludes with Miaoshan being transformed into the Thousand Armed Guanyin, and the king, queen and her two sisters building a temple on the mountain for her.

For this he was thrown into Beauchamp Tower, and after a year's liberation again imprisoned, in December, 1533, on the charges of disseminating the prophecies of the Maid of Kent, encouraging the queen " obstinately to persist in her wilful opinion against the same divorce and separation ", and maintaining her right to the title of queen.

* December 25 – JonBenét Ramsey, child beauty queen and murder victim ( b. 1990 )

* December 15 – Carola of Vasa, queen consort of Saxony ( b. 1833 )

* December 14 – Queen Mary, Queen of Scots, becomes queen at the age of only one week.

* December 9 – As Christina comes of age, she is made ruling queen of Sweden.

* December 6 – Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland ( d. 1551 )

* December 1 – Alexandra of Denmark, queen of Edward VII of England ( d. 1925 )

* December 29 – Elizabeth of Poland, queen consort of Hungary ( b. 1305 )

* December 13 – Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden ( b. 1535 )

* December 2 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom ( b. 1792 )

* December 19 – Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark ( b. 1724 )

* December 17 – Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen, from Braganza Dynasty ( d. 1816 )

* December 18 – Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark ( d. 1751 )

* December 21 – Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre ( b. 1492 )

* December 20 – Elvira Mendes, queen of Alfonso V of Castile ( b. 996 )

* December 2 – Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal ( b. 1432 )

* December 21 – Marguerite Berenger of Provence, queen of Louis IX of France ( b. c. 1221 )

* December – The twelve Eleanor crosses are erected between Lincolnshire and London in England as King Edward I mourns the death of his queen consort Eleanor of Castile.

* December 23 – Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England

# Edith of Wessex, ( c. 1020-18 December 1075 ), queen consort of Edward the Confessor

* December 19 – Edith of Wessex, queen of Edward the Confessor of England

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.

Anne of Denmark ( 12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619 ) was queen consort of Scotland, England, and Ireland as the wife of James VI and I.