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| | Parliament of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The House of Commons had 52 members, of which 48 were for territorial seats and four were for graduates of Queen's University, Belfast. | | | The Parliament of Northern Ireland was bicameral, consisting of a House of Commons with 52 seats, and an indirectly-elected Senate with 26 seats. | | | The Government of Ireland Act prescribed that elections to the House of Commons be by the Single Transferable Vote (STV), though the Parliament was given power to alter the electoral system from three years after its first meeting. |
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| | Victoria (Queen) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Victoria (Queen) |
| | She died at Osborne House, her home in the Isle of Wight, on 22 January 1901, and was buried at Windsor. | | | Victoria died on 22 January 1901 at Osborne House. | | | Victoria saw Gladstone as cold and aloof, and opposed his liberal policies, such as the 1867 Reform Act, although she was unable to stop the government's wishes from becoming law. |
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| | The UK Government |
| | Parliament consists of the Queen, an upper house of Parliament called the House of Lords and a lower house called the House of Commons and is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. | | | Queen Elizabeth II is Britain's Head of State. | | | If a law is to be changed, the House of Lords has to vote on it. |
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| | Firs Queen of Bristol |
| | From the time the Eighth Duke of Braganza became King John IV (1640) the House of Braganza continued to be the royal power in Portugal for 270 years or until 1910. | | | By Manuel Luciano da Silva, M.D. The Queen of England, Catherine of Braganza, was born in Vila Viçosa, Alto Alentejo, Portugal, on November 25, 1638, on St. Catherine's Day. | | | If Queen Catherine of Braganza were to visit America she would learn that Portuguese is the tenth most spoken language in U. Portuguese is the second most spoken in the State of Rhode Island. |
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| | History of the Monarchy > The Hanoverians > Victoria |
| | Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, on 22 January 1901 after a reign which lasted almost 64 years, the longest in British history. | | | With time, the private urgings of her family and the flattering attention of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880, the Queen gradually resumed her public duties. | | | Victoria bought Osborne House (later presented to the nation by Edward VII) on the Isle of Wight as a family home in 1845, and Albert bought Balmoral in 1852. |
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| | Hexapedia - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom |
| | The Queen-in-Parliament (the Queen, acting with the advice and consent of Parliament) constitutes the British legislature, Parliament comprising the House of Lords and House of Commons. | | | Constitutional status In the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II holds her throne by virtue of the Act of Settlement 1701, as she is the senior Protestant descendant of Electress Sophia of Hanover and not married to a Roman Catholic. | | | Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary), styled HM The Queen, born April 21, 1926, is the Queen regnant and Head of State of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and fifteen other Commonwealth countries. |
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| | Mary I of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 6 July 1553 (de jure) or 19 July 1553 (de facto) until her death. | | | When Mary ascended the Throne, she was proclaimed under the same official style as Henry VIII and Edward VI: "Mary, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith and of the Church of England and also of Ireland in Earth Supreme Head". | | | Mary suffered a phantom pregnancy; Philip released the Lady Elizabeth from house arrest so that he could be viewed favourably by her in case Mary died during childbirth. |
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| | Land8.html |
| | Queen Isabella never ate too much and laughed gaily when she was told that the house was so full of food that there was hardly room to move in the kitchen. | | | Wallace thought it was because of Isabellas presence in the house. | | | Just having Isabella in his house had changed George Henry. |
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| | The Queen and the Royal House |
| | In a narrow sense, the royal house today consists of Queen Margrethe II, the Royal Consort Prince Henrik, Crown Prince Frederik and his consort Crown Princess Mary, Prince Joachim, his spouse Princess Alexandra and their sons Prince Nikolai and Prince Felix, as well as Princess Benedikte and her spouse and Princess Elisabeth. | | | The Queen’s style of reigning is outgoing, and during her reign the royal house’s relationship with the population has become more open than before. | | | The succession, which was based on the principle of male primogeniture, was laid down in the Royal Law of 1665, which also regulated the internal affairs of the royal house in other ways. |
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| | Governor General of Australia |
| | Most State Government Houses were built in Queen Victoria's reign as residences for her vice-regal representatives, whereas Yarralumla's history is as old as any, but very different in kind. | | | The Queen stays at Government House when she visits Canberra, as do other visiting heads of state. | | | In 1891, having pulled down most of the old stone house, Frederick Campbell built the three storey house that is now the main part of the residence. |
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| | Queen Victoria |
| | Queen Victoria died at her house on the Isle of Wight on 22nd January 1901. | | | In 1868 William Gladstone, leader of the Liberals in the House of Commons, became Prime Minister. | | | How could the Queen consent to take a man as an adviser and confidential counsellor in all matters of State, religion, society, Court, etc., etc., he who as her Secretary of State and while a guest under her roof at Windsor Castle had committed a brutal attack upon one of her ladies? |
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| | Encyclopedia: Historic houses in England |
| | Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary), styled HM The Queen (born 21 April 1926) is the queen regnant and head of state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New... | | | Witley Court in 1880 Witley Court in Worcestershire was once one of the great houses of the Midlands but today it is a spectacular ruin. | | | Castle Drogo is a country house in Drewsteignton, Devon, England. |
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| | Mary of Guise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Marie de Guise (in English, Mary of Guise) (November 22, 1515 – June,1560) was the Queen Consort of James V of Scotland and the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots. | | | The eldest daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise, head of the French House of Guise, and his wife Antoinette of Bourbon, Marie was born at Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine. | | | It was Marie de Guise who effectively ruled Scotland as Regent for Queen Mary, who was sent to France at age 5 to be raised with her husband-to-be, the son of the French king Henry II. |
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| | List of Portuguese monarchs - Psychology Central |
| | With the marriage of Mary II, Queen of Portugal, to Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha during the 4th Dynasty, the House of Braganza continued (according to some historians) as the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. | | | The House of Braganza continues unofficially until today, and the title of Duke of Braganza is still used by Duarte Pio, the 24th Duke of Bragança and the presumptive heir to the throne of Portugal. | | | The House of Braganza traced its origins to 1442 when the Duchy of Braganza was created by Alphonzo V and offered to his uncle Alphonzo, son of John I. The royal lineage of Dukes that followed intercrossed with the House of Aviz and became one of the most important noble families of the country. |
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| | Rona Joyner condemns Politicians breaching Oath of Allegiance |
| | When a proposed law passed by both Houses of Parliament is presented to the Governor-General for the Queen's assent, he shall declare, according to his discretion, but subject to this Constitution, that he assents in the Queen's name, or that he withholds assent, or that he reserves the law for the Queen's pleasure." | | | Queen of Australia, RJ] worked a fundamental constitutional change, the Judge ruled "The fact is, it did not. | | | Our present Queen, like all other British Monarchs over many centuries, has also sworn these Oaths. |
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| | Margaret TUDOR (Queen of Scotland) |
| | She was married to James IV of Scotland on 8 Aug, 1503 at Holyrood House. | | | Margaret Tudor was the first daughter born to Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. | | | It was because of this union that England and Scotland would be united under one crown 100 years later at the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. |
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| | Encyclopedia: House of Hanover |
| | Ernest Augustus I, King of Hanover (5 June 1771 – 18 November 1851), also known (1799-1837) as the Duke of Cumberland was the fifth son and eighth child of King George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte. | | | The House of Hanover is a younger branch of the House of Welf, which in turn is a branch of the House of Este. | | | The thrones of the United Kingdom and Hanover diverged in 1837 as the throne of Hanover, unlike that of the U.K., was under the Salic law, and so did not pass to Queen Victoria and instead passed to her uncle, the Duke of Cumberland. |
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| | Anne, queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Soon afterward the queen died, and Jacobite hopes were dashed by the succession of George I of the house of Hanover. | | | Party lines were slowly hardening, but party government and ministerial responsibility were not yet established; intrigues and the favor of the queen still made and unmade cabinets, though the influence of public opinion, shaped by an increasingly powerful press and elections, was growing. | | | Queen Anne was a dull, stubborn, but conscientious woman, devoted to the Church of England and within it to the High Church party. |
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| | Braganza |
| | The house of Braganza ruled Portugal until the establishment of a republic in 1910. | | | Braganza, royal house that ruled Portugal from 1640 to 1910 and Brazil from 1822 to 1889. | | | Catherine of Braganza - Catherine of Braganza, 1638–1705, queen consort of Charles II of England, daughter of John... |
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| | Queen Victoria |
| | Letters of Queen Victoria from the Archives of the House of Brandenburg-Prussia edited by Hector Bolitho, translated by Mrs. | | | Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed by Elizabeth Longford | | | Regina vs. Palmerston: The Correspondence between Queen Victoria and Her Foreign and Prime Minister, 1837-1865 edited by Brian Connell |
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| | Encyclopedia: Mansion House, Dublin |
| | The Mansion House - The portico to the front was erected for Queen Victoria's visit in 1900, to provide cover for the elderly Queen in her carriage. | | | Seanad Éireann (English: Senate of Ireland), the Irish Senate, is the upper house of the Oireachtas: the parliament of the Republic of Ireland1. | | | The Mansion House The Lord Mayor of Dublin is the symbolic head of the city government in the capital of Ireland. |
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| | British monarchy |
| | Attending are the members of the House of Lords, Privy Counsellors, the Lord Mayor of London, Aldermen of the City of London, and High Commissioners of Commonwealth countries. | | | The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II (since February 6 1952) and the Heir Apparent is Charles, Prince of Wales (son of the Queen, born November 14 1948). | | | The British monarch or Sovereign is the head of state of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories, and is the source of all executive, judicial and (as the Queen-in-Parliament) legislative power. |
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| | CAIN: Politics: New Ulster Movement (1971) 'The Reform of Stormont' |
| | It is generally agreed that the four Queens University M.P.s who sat in the Stormont House of Commons until 1969 made a better-than-average contribution to the work of the House. | | | This would raise the strength of the House of Commons from 52 to 78, and of the Senate from 26 to 39. | | | As the House of Commons is twice as large as the Senate, this would mean that, in such a joint sitting, the Senate would have one-third of the decision-making power. |
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| | Queen Elizabeth I: Biography, Portraits, Primary Sources |
| | Elizabeth was sent to a small manor house a few miles from Oatlands where she played another waiting game, only this time with some measure of freedom and hope. | | | Elizabeth was honorably and extravagantly received at her brother's court. | | | She sent Elizabeth away amicably enough and a week later poor Bedingfield was relieved of his duties. |
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| | A Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz |
| | In 1790, the queen bought her last residence--"Frogmore House"--a small country palace located one-half mile southwest of Windsor Castle. | | | Queen Charlotte's court in later years was also called "The Nunnery." | | | In the first twenty-one years of her marriage Queen Charlotte gave birth to fifteen children, nine sons and six daughters. |
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| | Governor General of Australia |
| | Most State Government Houses were built in Queen Victoria's reign as residences for her vice-regal representatives, whereas Yarralumla's history is as old as any, but very different in kind. | | | The Queen stays at Government House when she visits Canberra, as do other visiting heads of state. | | | In 1891, having pulled down most of the old stone house, Frederick Campbell built the three storey house that is now the main part of the residence. |
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| | Government House |
| | The House contains the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the representative of Her Majesty The Queen of Canada, and offices of the administrative staff who support the duties and activities associated with the appointment. | | | On 20 July 1871, British Columbia entered Confederation, and Cary Castle became Government House, the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of the Province of British Columbia. | | | When she is in residence at Government House, the Lieutenant Governor's personal standard can be seen flying from the flagpole. |
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| | Government House NT - House and Gardens |
| | The Queen's Bedroom is the main suite for distinguished guests at Government House and is named in honour of Queen Elizabeth II who stayed in this room in October 1982. | | | Government House, was entered on the Register of the National Estate in 1980 and on 15 March 1996, it was declared a Place of Heritage under the Heritage Conservation Act (Northern Territory). | | | Upon his appointment as the first Administrator of the Northern Territory in 1912, Dr John Anderson Gilruth changed the name from the 'Residence' to 'Government House'. |
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| | Portugal - Mill - oshow4 |
| | This success, on 14 August 1385, secured the independence of Portugal for almost 200 years, established the House of Avis on the throne and, as HV Livermore states, importantly for the future development of the country, assured the fall of the old landed magnates and the rise of the merchant classes of Lisbon and Oporto. | | | More importantly, the House of Braganza, albeit reluctantly at first, ruled Portugal from 1640 until the monarchy was abolished and the Republic instituted in 1910. | | | Hence, Nun' Alvarez Pereira was one of the ancestors of Catherine of Braganza who married Charles II and became Queen of England (in which role she introduced toast to the British!). |
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