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English: "China -- the cake of kings and... of emperors" (a French pun on king cake and kings and emperors wishing to "consume" China). French political cartoon from 1898. A pastry represents "Chine" (French for China) and is being divided between caricatures of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, William II of Germany (who is squabbling with Queen Victoria over a borderland piece, whilst ...
Allegoric representation of Elizabeth I with the goddesses Juno, Athena, and Venus/Aphrodite, by Joris Hoefnagel or Hans Eworth, ca 1569. There have been numerous notable portrayals of Queen Elizabeth in a variety of art forms, and she is the most filmed British monarch.
Queen Victoria leads the English civilization in the 2016 4X video game Civilization VI developed by Firaxis Games. [26] [27] Queen Victoria is revealed to be watching the climactic trial in the video game The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, and uses her authority to strip the main villain of his position as chief justice. Rather than appearing ...
Britain's monarch was officially crowned in 1953; however she technically became Queen a year earlier, after the death of her father King George.
[8] Others argue the queen had a liaison, but it produced no child; others do not believe that an affair took place. [9] The twentieth century brought about the recovery of some items that belonged to the queen thought lost forever and a wave of new biographies, which began to show the queen in a somewhat more sympathetic light.
The Queen of Hearts is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.She is a childish, foul-tempered monarch whom Carroll himself describes as "a blind fury", and who is quick to give death sentences at even the slightest of offenses.
It's not *all* business for Queen Elizabeth.. The 93-year-old is a queen by day, but a family woman by night. Her official duties may lie with the monarchy, but behind-the-scenes, she is very much ...
The series was the first to caricature Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (as an elderly gin-drinker with a Beryl Reid voice). [4] One of the most-watched shows of the 1980s, Spitting Image satirised politics, entertainment, sport and British popular culture of the era. At its peak, the show was watched by 15 million people. [5]