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4 unusual facts about Queen regnant


Neferu I

Neferu I ("the beauty") was the first queen of Ancient Egyptian Eleventh dynasty.

Queen regnant

In China, Wu Zetian became the Chinese empress regnant and established the Zhou Dynasty after dismissing her sons.

Queen's Service Order

The Queen's Service Order, established by Queen Elizabeth II on 13 March 1975, is awarded by the government of New Zealand "for valuable voluntary service to the community or meritorious and faithful services to the Crown or similar services within the public sector, whether in elected or appointed office".

Reina King

Reina and her sister have similar names: Reina and Regina both mean queen, in Spanish and Latin, respectively.


Aonach

An Aonach was an ancient Irish public national assembly called upon the death of a king, queen, notable sage or warrior as part of ancestor worship practices.

Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

By Royal Warrant published on October 1, 2009, Queen Elizabeth II established a place for the Deputy President of the Supreme Court in the order of precedence: the Deputy President of the Supreme Court ranks after the Master of the Rolls and before the other Justices of the Supreme Court.

Novella

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), author of The Decameron (1353)—one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), aka Marguerite de Valois, et. alii., author of Heptaméron (1559)—seventy-two original French tales (modeled after the structure of The Decameron).

Pillar Box War

Some objected to this usage as the new Queen was in fact only the first Elizabeth to reign over the United Kingdom or indeed Great Britain, Elizabeth I having been solely the Queen of England.

Princess

Old English had no female equivalent of "prince", "earl", or any royal or noble title aside from queen.

The Girl Guides Association of the Kingdom of Tonga

Guiding was started in Tonga at the instigation of Queen Salote in 1952, and the first companies were formed on the island of Tongatapu.

Tim Hitchens

Timothy Mark Hitchens, CMG, LVO (born 1962) is a British diplomat and a former Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, 1999-2002.


see also

Isabella of Spain

Isabella II of Spain (1830–1904), first and so far only queen regnant of Spain

Margaret of Norway

Margaret I of Denmark (1353–1412), queen regnant of Norway, regent of Denmark and Sweden, and founder of the Kalmar Union

Mary of Scotland

Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), Queen regnant of Scotland from 1542 to 1567

Princess Christina

Princess Christina of the Netherlands (born 1947), daughter of Queen regnant Juliana of the Netherlands and Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld

Queen Jane

Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554), the Queen Regnant of England for nine days in 1553

Queen Mary

Maria of Montferrat (1192–1212), queen regnant of Jerusalem, daughter of Isabella I of Jerusalem and Conrad of Montferrat and mother of Isabella II of Jerusalem