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Reigning Queens portrays the four ruling queens at the time – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and Queen Ntfombi Twala of Swaziland. The images used by Warhol to make the screen prints were derived from official photographs.
He painted portraits of Queen Elizabeth II on three occasions;- in 1965 for the Royal Marines, in 1978 for the island of Jersey and also in 1978 for the submarine officers of HMS Dolphin. [8] He painted notable portraits of Prince Charles , Prince Philip and of the Queen Mother , who sat for him for four separate commissions. [ 8 ]
Shortly after George VI's death, Elizabeth began to be styled as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother because the normal style for the widow of a king, "Queen Elizabeth", would have been too similar to the style of her elder daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. [91] Popularly, she became the "Queen Mother" or the "Queen Mum". [92]
Ball at the Court of Henri III (detail), Franco-Flemish school, c. 1582.. A series of lavish and spectacular court entertainments, sometimes called magnificences, were laid on by Catherine de' Medici, the queen consort of France from 1547 to 1559 and queen mother from 1559 until her death in 1589.
The Queen’s cousin Margaret Rhodes described how the monarch blossomed in later years. “I think in a funny way, perhaps, you know the death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother had quite a huge ...
A historical fantasy of Elizabeth's life, featuring elven guardians, is recounted in This Scepter'd Isle (2004), Ill Met by Moonlight (2005), and By Slanderous Tongues (2007) by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis. Queen Elizabeth I: A Children's Picture Book by Richard Brassey (2005) Queen Elizabeth I and Her Conquests by Margret Simpson (2006)
The book, Queen Elizabeth: A Portrait of the Queen Mother, was rejected by Macmillan but was eventually published by Viking in 1986. Her former agent Giles Gordon , in his obituary of her in The Guardian , called it "the most astute biography of a royal since Lytton Strachey was at work.
After Newlyn, Armstrong lived in St. Ives, where she met Stanhope Forbes, whom she married in 1889. [7] Going against societal roles for married women, Elizabeth Forbes continued to be an active and successful artist after marriage. Further, in 1899 she and her husband Stanhope Forbes opened the Newlyn Art School. [2]