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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.
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]
Alfredo Jaar felt the series was a "monument to kitsch" in a 2012 interview for the book Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. [8] Anthony Haden-Guest wrote that the series "had been correctly seen as a shameless assault on the rich kitsch market" in his 1998 book True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World. [9]
[4] Crawford's unauthorised work was published in Woman's Own in the UK and in the Ladies' Home Journal in the United States, becoming a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. A book, The Little Princesses, also sold exceptionally well. Later she wrote stories about Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Princess
Julie Miller in Vanity Fair described the book as "aristocratic gossip", and labelled it as deeply subjective. [25] Her other books include a book about her own mother titled Daughter of a Narcissus: A Family's Struggle to Survive their Mother's Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and a book about Queen Elizabeth II titled The Queen's Marriage. [26]
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 ...
Tony Threadgold, The Queen's new neighbour. Beverley Threadgold, his wife. Violet Toby, one of Diana's neighbours. Wilfred 'Wilf' Toby, her fifth husband. Marilyn Monk, Beverley's sister and Diana's other neighbour. Leslie Kerry Violet Elizabeth Monk, the child of Marilyn and her imprisoned husband, Les. Philomena Toussaint, the Queen Mother's ...
The fate of the Imperial State Crown; despite being destroyed in The Queen and I, it is still in the Queen's possession in Queen Camilla. The death of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The character was killed off in The Queen and I, set in 1992, yet in Queen Camilla she is said to have lived to the age of 101, as she did in real life.