Sentences with phrase «british monarch»

Much like Canada and Australia, Belize continues to have the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, as its official head of state.

As a previous fully functioning yacht of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, the magnificent ship was in service from 1954 until 1997 sailing around the world on royal duties, until 1997 when she was decommissioned.

British monarch titular head of state, but represented by appointed governor general.

The move away from a charm's use as keeping evil spirits at bay can probably be attributed to the British monarch, Queen Victoria, who wore them as a fashion statement, even capturing a lock of her husband, Prince Albert's, hair in a charm.

On 7th February, 2017 Queen Elizabeth 11 made history when she became the first British monarch to reach a Sapphire Jubilee marking a 65 year reign.

In 2016 she became the first reigning British monarch to reach the age of 90.

«In the past, all a king had to do was look good in uniform,» observes King George V (Michael Gambon)-- the first British monarch to address his subjects via radio — early on in Tom Hooper's splendid period drama The King's Speech.

EMILY BLUNT has defended her movie THE YOUNG VICTORIA after critics slammed the film's historical inaccuracies - she insists unhappy reviewers should just «watch the History Channel» instead.Blunt stars as legendary British monarch Queen Victoria...

Despite the turmoil that her reign undergoes, Queen Elizabeth the II has gone on to become the longest - reigning and longest - living British monarch of all time — sitting on the throne still today.

A lavishly mounted biopic of the eponymous British monarch that boasts Martin Scorsese among its producers, «The Young Victoria» seemed primed for Oscar consideration last year.

That theory, described online February 5 in the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, attempts to explain the British monarch's puzzling personality shift from a young renaissance king to a petty, cruel and capricious tyrant, Muhammad Qaiser Ikram of Yale School of Medicine and colleagues propose.

The British monarch is also the Head of the Commonwealth, and the head of state in 16 of the 54 Commonwealth member countries.

Any change to the laws of succession to the British throne require the agreement of all those countries which have the British monarch as their head of state (the Commonwealth Realms).

Not to mention Australia actually has two heads of state, with one of them obviously being the current leading British monarch and the other being the current Prime Minister proving that we are indeed in control of ourselves.

The British monarch and her husband celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary last November.

In this case the subject is someone who accepts the rule of the British monarch — the opposite of a republican citizen.

What happens if the British monarch suddenly decides to not play ball; and actually exercise those powers (e.g., refuse assent; or suspend Parliament; or declare war - without PM's / parliament's agreement)?

While there is provision for atheist and agnostic MPs to affirm rather than invoking a deity they don't believe in, there is no provision to swear allegiance to an entity other than the British monarch, which Sinn Fein MPs refuse to do.

The name Victoria is primarily known as the former British monarch, Queen Victoria, but it has its place in Australia as well.

The island gained full independence in 1966, and maintains ties to the British monarch represented in Barbados by the Governor General.

The British monarch has acted as the head of the Anglican Church since its inception,...

In 2012 archaeologists found Richard's final remains beneath a car park in Leicester and until now he was the only British monarch without a marked grave.

It is a historic tradition that the Abbey bells are rung for significant royal occasions and anniversaries, and the Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum wedding anniversary.

There is no more evidence that any «LORD» spoke to them and «anointed» anyone as king than that he spoke to the Duke of Windsor to abdicate so that eventually Queen Elizabeth would be «anointed» as the British monarch.

As the tweet suggests, the mistake is a common one and pops up almost every time news outlets report on a celebrity owning such and such a word or phrase (the Queen Anne in the tweet, by the way, refers to the British monarch who presided over the UK's first copyright law).

There are religious leftovers, of course: church taxes may still be collected and — as in West Germany — most people may still dutifully pay them; state occasions, like the coronation of British monarchs, will still require religious pomp and sanction.

... Later in the day, Mr Obama will give a speech on US foreign policy at Westminster Hall, an honour usually reserved for British monarchs.

Not exact matches

Scotland and England shared a monarch for a century before they united politically in 1707, and the queen remains head of state in Canada, Australia and several other former British colonies.

The «Royal Bed,» as Savoir Beds is calling it, is inspired by 17th - and 18th - century British beds, when royal bedrooms were the center of palace life and beds were meant to impress anyone lucky enough to get an audience with the monarch in his chambers.

If I say «king» to an American and ask for a definition, most reply, «male ruler,» whereas a British person nearly always answers, «monarch.»

Now, for the first time, the theory has been tested, and the report published in the British journal Nature is that birds deem viceroys as unpalatable as monarchs.

This is to take little account of the current monarch's cohesive role in the British constitution, through an established Church of England.

The British people have a history of knocking back outspoken monarchs.

The de facto popularity of the monarchy over Republican anti-monarchy efforts does not negate the inherent wrongness of esteeming an inherited class position of monarch over theoretical and legal equality of all British citizens, including the Windsor family.

London (CNN) British royal weddings are usually grand affairs of state, where presidents and prime ministers rub shoulders with obscure European monarchs.

The British political system is a «constitutional monarchy»: the supreme power held by the monarch is largely ceremonial and formal, with actual political power exercised by others.

This monarch is a man who has adjusted to both power and his quirks of speech, and is sure enough of himself to work with Gary Oldman's Winston Churchill with the utmost — and most British — reluctance.

Other dramatic actress nominees were Emily Blunt as Britain's monarch in her early reign in «The Young Victoria,» Helen Mirren as the imperious wife of Leo Tolstoy in «The Last Station,» Carey Mulligan as a 1960s British teen in an affair with an older man in «An Education» and Gabourey Sidibe as an illiterate, abused teen turning her life around in «Precious.»

When last seen, British director Tom Hooper had just overseen a historical biography about a stammering monarch, someone who felt ill - equipped to take the throne, a chap who couldn't get a sentence out without scrunching up in agony.

I always thought history was boring, probably because about the only thing I remember is memorizing dates for the reigns of monarchs (I'm from Canada, so we focused on British history).

There are topics of general interest such as English and Scottish soccer, premiership football teams, patriotic songs, Christmas carols, the monarchs of Britain and the history of British towns and cities and others more specific such as stately homes, churches and cathedrals, hymns and Bible Study.

Some of our favorite family - friendly options include seeing the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London; touring awe - inspiring Westminster Abbey to learn about some of England's greatest monarchs, poets and scientists; coming face - to - face with mummies at the British Museum and dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History; visiting Harry Potter sites such as the London Zoo and Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station; taking a ride on the London Eye for spectacular views over the city; seeing the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace; sampling sweets and treats galore in the food halls of Harrods; riding a double - decker bus; and browsing one of the best toy stores in the world.

Having been settled by Indian monarchs, the Portuguese and later the British, the city boasts a wonderful variety of architectural styles and attractions.

Opened in 1856, with founder trustees including Disraeli and Lord Ellesmere, the collection reflects the law - makers and taste - shapers of British culture, from monarchs to musicians, actors, explorers and authors.

There was criticism of this portrayal of the Queen in some sections of the British media as the portrait did not glamorise the monarch.

A monarch who has never bought a work by a living artist has deigned to inflict on Paula Rego the patently ridiculous title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

The displays at Tate Britain call on the greatest collection of British art in the world to present an unrivalled picture of the development of art in Britain from the time of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century, to the present day.

In addition, by requiring that future monarchs be Anglican the British law contravenes the Canadian Charter of Rights, since it enshrines religious discrimination.

* «Pot» did not always refer to a cooking implement * British groups had always been a feature of pop music * The VW Beetle had always been the alternative to a North American car * There had always been a nuclear threat in a cold war * Queen Elizabeth II was the only monarch they remembered * Germany had always been two countries (well, so far as current affairs went — rather hard for that generation to avoid knowing the history before the division, though.)