aristocrat

English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997)

French noblewoman who was the mistress of Henry II; she had more influence over him than did his wife Catherine de Medicis (1499-1566)

Italian noblewoman and patron of the arts (1480-1519)

according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080)

English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (1765-1815)

French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)

French noblewoman who was mistress to Louis XIV until he became attracted to Madame de Maintenon (1641-1707)

French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764)

beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)

the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504)

queen of the Hawaiian islands (1838-1917)

queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587)

Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)

Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)

daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)

Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)

daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)

Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; she was the eldest daughter of James II and ruled jointly with her husband William III (1662-1694)

queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)

the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I; was executed on a charge of adultery (1507-1536)

queen of France as the wife of Henry II and regent during the minority of her son Charles IX (1519-1589)

queen of France as the wife of Louis VII; that marriage was annulled in 1152 and she then married Henry II and became Queen of England (1122-1204)

(Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)

Queen of England as the fifth wife of Henry VIII who was accused of adultery and executed (1520-1542)

wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC)

queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)

queen of Egypt and wife of Akhenaton (14th century BC)

Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548)

Queen of England as the third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI (1509-1537)

(Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table

a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas

English nobleman who deposed Edward II and was executed by Edward III (1287-1330)

commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805)

the fourth son of Edward III who was the effective ruler of England during the close of his father's reign and during the minority of Richard II; his son was Henry Bolingbroke (1340-1399)

an English nobleman who led the baronial rebellion against Henry III (1208-1265)

British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964)

Persian prince who was defeated in battle by his brother Artaxerxes II (424-401 BC)

third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964)

Englishman and husband of Elizabeth II (born 1921)

English leader (born in Germany) of the Royalist forces during the English Civil War (1619-1682)

archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I (1863-1914)

grand duke of Muscovy whose victories against the Tartars laid the basis for Russian unity (1440-1505)

the Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688)

prince consort of Queen Victoria of England (1819-1861)

the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)

son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376)

(Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas

fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss

a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight

a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family)

a woman who is an aristocrat

the wife or widow of a czar

a woman of the peerage in Britain

a female sovereign ruler

the wife or widow of a king

(Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person

a man who is an aristocrat

a gallant or courtly gentleman

originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

a titled peer of the realm

a title used before the name of knight or baronet

a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)

a sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria

a male heir apparent to a throne

formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne

a prince who rules a territory

a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja

any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign

a young prince

a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality

the male heir apparent of the British sovereign

a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)

a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria

a female heir apparent to a throne

a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja

the eldest daughter of a British sovereign

a prince or king in India

(the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja