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  Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She became Queen of the United Kingdom, of Canada, of Australia, of New Zealand, of Ceylon, of Pakistan and of South Africa on the death of her father, King George VI on 6 February 1952.
The Queen, or her Governors-General in the realms outside the United Kingdom, also gives a speech at the annual State Opening of Parliament, outlining the government's legislative agenda for the year, but the speech is written by ministers.
In the United Kingdom, her official title is Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
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 United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United Kingdom, often confusingly referred to as "Britain", is a constitutional monarchy and a unitary state composed through a political union of four constituent entities: the three constituent countries of England, Scotland, and Wales on Great Britain, and the province of Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland.
Also sometimes associated with the United Kingdom, though not constitutionally part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown dependencies (the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man) as self-governing possessions of the Crown, and a number of overseas territories under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
At the April 2001 UK Census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194, the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and France) and the twenty-first largest in the world.
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 United Kingdom - Simple English Wikipedia
The United Kingdom (UK) or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is a country in North West Europe.
The capital city of the United Kingdom is London, a large city with the River Thames inside of the city, in south-eastern England.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is the queen of the UK and is the head of state (Person in charge of the country).
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 LLRX -- Update to A Guide to the UK Legal System
The United Kingdom was established in 1801 with the union of Great Britain and Ireland, but only achieved its present form in 1922 with the partition of Ireland and the establishment of the independent Irish Free State (later the Republic of Ireland).
Northern Ireland was created in 1922 from the six protestant-dominated counties of the Irish province of Ulster (the remaining three Ulster counties being catholic).
The Northern Ireland Parliament was abolished, and replaced by a unicameral Northern Ireland Assembly, with a Secretary of State appointed by the British Government and serving as a member of the British Cabinet.
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 United Kingdom - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The United Kingdom is comprised of four constituents, England, Wales and Scotland which alone form Great Britain and combined with Northern Ireland and several island groups, form the United Kingdom.
Northern Ireland consists mostly of low lying plateaux and hills while the Mourne Mountains in the southeast include Northern Ireland's highest point, Slieve Donard at 852 metres (2,796 feet).
In Jan. 1972 Britain's EU membership was approved and in April, Prime Minister Heath imposed direct British rule on Ulster (Northern Ireland) after the IRA bombed and killed seven soldiers.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - grandchild
Victoria (queen) : family and lineage : grandchildren: Philip (of the United Kingdom)
Philip (of the United Kingdom), born in 1921, husband of Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Queen Victoria was born Alexandrina Victoria on May 24, 1819, in Kensington Palace, London.
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 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom - Simple English Wikipedia
Elizabeth II (born April 21, 1926) is the Queen of the United Kingdom and many other countries around the world, known as Commonwealth Realms, like Canada.
Her father George VI of the United Kingdom had become king after his brother (Edward VIII of the United Kingdom) abdicated (decided to stop being King) in 1936.
In 2002, when her mother, the Queen Mother died, Elizabeth celebrated her Golden Jubilee, which meant she had reigned for 50 years.
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 Royal Insight > August 2004 > Mailbox > Page 1
Queen Victoria was the first reigning Monarch to use the Palace in its current form as an official working base for the Sovereign; she came to live at Buckingham Palace (from her home at Kensington Palace) in July 1837.
Queen Elizabeth II is Queen of England, but she is also Queen of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - in other words Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Therefore to describe The Queen as 'Queen of England' is not strictly incorrect, but it is somewhat misleading as she is also Queen of other parts of the United Kingdom, and of the realms in the Commonwealth.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/page3364.asp   (592 words)

  
 The Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Queen is head of the Anglican Church of England and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
The eldest son of a monarch is from birth Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland.
The children of a sovereign, the children of his/her sons and the oldest son of the oldest son of a Prince of Wales are Royal Highness, Prince/Princess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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 Election Resources on the Internet: Parliamentary Elections in the U.K. - Elections to the House of Commons
The United Kingdom Parliament is composed of the Crown, that is the monarch, the House of Lords, an appointive and hereditary upper chamber, and the popularly elected lower chamber, the House of Commons.
For general election purposes, the United Kingdom is currently divided into 646 constituencies, each of which returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons, elected for a maximum term of five years.
That the British government was willing to implement PR in Northern Ireland but not in Great Britain proper may have appeared to be a contradiction, but the rationale was that Northern Ireland is different, with a distinctively problematic situation requiring different solutions.
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 United Kingdom
The United Kingdom, consisting of Great Britain (England, Wales, and Scotland) and Northern Ireland, is twice the size of New York State.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a queen and a Parliament that has two houses: the House of Lords, with 574 life peers, 92 hereditary peers, and 26 bishops; and the House of Commons, which has 651 popularly elected members.
Queen Anne's reign (1702–1714) was marked by the Duke of Marlborough's victories over France at Blenheim, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet in the War of the Spanish Succession.
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 JURIST - Gazette
CONVINCED that, thus "United in diversity", Europe offers them the best chance of pursuing, with due regard for the rights of each individual and in awareness of their responsibilities towards future generations and the Earth, the great venture which makes of it a special area of human hope,...have agreed as follows...
United States, 534 U.S. The Defendants’ intended timing and manner of sending notice is not reasonably calculated to apprise Plaintiff Voters of the hearing regarding the challenge to their registrations, nor to give them the opportunity to present their objections, as demonstrated by the individual situations of Plaintiffs Miller and Haddix.
Hood, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge James L. King, October 26, 2004 [ruling that county election supervisors had acted legally in denying voter applications that were incomplete at the Oct. 4 registration deadline].
jurist.law.pitt.edu /gazette/2004_10_24_indexarch.php   (2166 words)

  
 Accession Convention of 9 October 1978
The Kingdom of the Netherlands may declare at the time of signing or ratifying this Convention or at any later time, by notifying the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Communities, that this Convention shall be applicable to the Netherlands Antilles.
Proceedings brought in the United Kingdom on appeal from courts in one of the territories referred to in subparagraph 2 of the third paragraph shall be deemed to be proceedings taking place in those courts.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands may declare at the time of signing or ratifying this Protocol or at any later time, by notifying the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Communities, that this Protocol shall be applicable to the Netherlands Antilles.
curia.eu.int /common/recdoc/convention/en/c-textes/brux06a.htm   (4690 words)

  
 AM Archive - Queen's Golden Jubilee
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the reign of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and her other realms and territories, Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith, as she's formally known.
It's something that only happens very rarely and I think that, especially since the Queen has been and is recognised as having been such a magnificent monarch and a dutiful monarch, that 50 years on the throne is not being recognised.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II: Your welcome and your demonstration of love here this afternoon have given me the greatest pleasure and I also congratulate you on the splendid display that you gave yesterday before the opening of Parliament.
www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s474487.htm   (509 words)

  
 Elizabeth II
April 21, 1926, London, Eng.), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from Feb. 6, 1952.
On the accession of Queen Elizabeth, her son Prince Charles became heir apparent; he was named Prince of Wales on July 26, 1958, and was so invested on July 1, 1969.
The queen seemed increasingly aware of the modern role of the monarchy, allowing, for example, the televising of the royal family's domestic life in 1970 and condoning the formal dissolution of her sister's marriage in 1978.
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 The Monarchy by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober
The heiress to the Throne actually learned that she had become Queen, however, after Martin Charteris, then attached to her Household and traveling with the royal couple in Kenya, heard a report on the radio and relayed the news to Michael Parker, a close friend of Prince Philip's who was in the royal entourage.
First of all, there was his complete concern, his consideration for her as a human being, and secondly, the implications of the fact that she was becoming the Queen and he is her husband.
Queen Elizabeth, nee Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the King's devoted wife of nearly twenty-nine years, and now by virtue of his death a widow at the age of fifty-one, was the first to be informed.
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 MONARCHY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
She is Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its colonial territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Queen of eleven other independent countries including our own: Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, source of justice, fountain of honour, Supreme Governor of the Church; all government is carried out in her name.
Majesty in her terms is the majesty of the common man. And she embodies the hope that at the centre of the vast, impersonal machinery of the modern state might lie an ordinary human being, living, breathing like everyone else.
However, there is one aspect of the life of our Queen on which I should like to speak for a few moments, and that is the sense of dedication, which from years before her accession up to the present time, has been foremost in her life.
www.monarchist.org.au /jobbins.htm   (1892 words)

  
 Elizabeth II --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Despite her own undiminished popularity after 44 years on the throne of the United Kingdom, the queen was surrounded by family turmoil and public pressures on the British monarchy to change its ways.
As the wife of King George VI of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth was queen consort from 1936 to 1952.
Noted for her humor and easygoing nature, the “Queen Mum,” as she became affectionately known, was one of the most popular and admired members of the...
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 Bulletin - A final irrelevance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Heraldists were alarmed to note that the coat of arms that topped and tailed the governor-general’s resignation speech were those of the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland rather than of the Queen of Australia.
This irrelevant symbol with its English lions and Scottish unicorn still graces the portico of Government House, Canberra, and probably won’t be replaced with the correct armorials – with kangaroo and emu – until the current monarchy-mad prime minister retires.
In 1986, when the Australia Acts were passed, the Queen of England technically became a foreigner to the Queen of Australia, and said foreign Queen had nothing to do with appointing the unlamented Peter Hollingworth or withdrawing his commission.
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 Jamaica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the official Jordan biography it says that her political instincts and courage allowed her to successfully fill a constitutional vacuum after the assassination of the late King Abdullah in 1951, while the newly proclaimed King Talal was being treated outside the Kingdom for his mental illness.
She played a major role in the political development of the Kingdom in the early 1950s, and took part in the writing of the 1952 Constitution that gave full rights to women and enhanced the social development of the country.
Born in Egypt as daughter of the Court Chamberlain, Sharif Jamal Ali bin Nasser, she was mother of three sons and a daughter, and lived (1916-94).
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 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom - Wikiquote
Elizabeth II in an official portrait as Queen of Canada (on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing her Canadian Orders.)
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
Daughter of George VI of the United Kingdom and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
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 UD - St.prp. nr. 38 (2000-2001)
Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at Dublin
As regards the Kingdom of Denmark, the provisions of this Convention shall not apply to the Faroe Islands nor to Greenland unless a declaration to the contrary is made by the Kingdom of Denmark.
They shall not apply to the European territories for whose external relations the United Kingdom is responsible unless a declaration to the contrary is made by the United Kingdom.
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