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	The Royal Family > The Queen's Golden Jubilee > The Queen's reign in facts and figures
		Queen Elizabeth II is the fortieth monarch since William the Conqueror obtained the crown of England.
		The Queen was born at 17 Bruton St, London W1 on the 21st April, 1926, was christened on the 29th May, 1926 in the Private Chapel at Buckingham Palace and was confirmed on the 28th March, 1942 in the Private Chapel at Windsor Castle.
		The Queen has laid her wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday every year of her reign, except in 1959, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1983 and 1999 when she was either pregnant or overseas on an official visit.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page910.asp (1417 words)

	The Queen of the Damned - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Queen of the Damned is a novel by Anne Rice.
		Aaliyah (who played the undead Queen) had died in a plane crash, by the time the film was released.
		The 2002 film deviated from this storyline and killed off some of the characters, including Mael, Pandora, and nearly Armand, but none of those gathered at Sonoma died apart from Akasha in the novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Queen_of_the_Damned (979 words)

	The Queen at 70
		Queen Elizabeth II was 70 on April 21, 1996 and has reigned for 44 of those years.
		The Princess, not knowing what cards fate was dealing for her, probably became Queen while filming wildlife from the observation post known as Treetops, overlooking a waterhole in the Aberdare Forest game reserve, in Kenya, 3000 miles from frost-shrouded Sandringham House back in Britain where her much loved father had died in his sleep.
		The schedule was so energetic that the Queen lost quite a few pounds in weight and a number of her outfits, which had become too loose, had to be altered en route.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/qe70.html (1290 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: The Queen of the Damned
		This film is not in the same ballpark with "Interview With the Vampire," the previous adaptation of an Anne Rice vampire chronicle novel.
		In "Queen of the Damned" the sexual tension is played out between the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (played by Stuart Townsend) and Akisha (played by the late Aaliyah of "Romeo Must Die") and the mortal Jesse Reeves (Marguerite Moreau).
		Akisha is the mother of all vampires, the queen of the damned, as it were.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/queendamned.html (722 words)

	Film & TV: Ridiculous Favoritism (Salt Lake City Weekly . 08-11-97)
		As the film opens, Victoria, barely concealing her inconsolable grief, comes to her table swathed in the fl costume of mourning and flanked by family and advisers.
		When the Queen fancies taking a swim to ease her misery, the ceremony and fanfare that follows is almost humorous.
		The Queen's court, as well as her subjects, misinterpret the Queen's relationship with this perceived interloper and usurper of power.
	weeklywire.com /ww/08-11-97/slc_cinema.html (897 words)

	Queen of the Damned (2002)
		The Queen of the Damned is as far as I made it in the Anne Rice chronicles.
		Unfortunately, in the world of the film, it breaks all of the Vampire rules, and the world's remaining bloodsuckers are none too happy about it, determined to descend upon Lestat at his much hyped Death Valley concert and kill him for his betrayal of them.
		While the film takes its time in setting all this up and manages to include the gist of The Vampire Lestat in a short sequence, once the arrow is shot, it flies toward its target way too quickly, dumping all of the complexity and history and everything else Rice so carefully crafted in the book.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/DamnQueen/DamnQueen.html (750 words)

	Royal Insight > Out and About > The Queen visits Norfolk, 5 February 2004
		The Queen traditionally carries out engagements in Norfolk on the day prior to Accession Day, but very rarely carries out engagements on the day itself, although in her Golden Jubilee year, she opened the Macmillan Centre at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn.
		The Queen is greeted by the Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk as she arrives at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
		During her tour of the hospital, The Queen was shown the X-ray room and radiology department and watched the process of X-rays being taken and added to an online medical record.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/page2915.asp (720 words)

	Queen Christina (1933)
		Queen Christina (1933) is one of Greta Garbo's quintessential, most-remembered screen portrayals (and one of her finest films), with glowing scenes (enhanced by her favorite cinematographer William Daniels) that reflect the mystique of the lovely, enigmatic actress.
		The plot, ending with the Queen's abdication from her kingdom and self-imposed exile and withdrawal (for the ill-fated love of a Spanish nobleman-envoy), in order to follow her heart to Spain (to return her slain lover to his homeland), prophetically echoed the same sort of conflict that Garbo struggled with in her private life.
		Taglines advertising the film proclaimed: "A 17th century maiden who loved with a 20th century madness," and "She was crowned King of Sweden...lived and ruled as a man...But surrendered to Love." Since the actual Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) was bisexual in orientation, this provided the story with a pretext for its lesbian leanings.
	www.filmsite.org /quee.html (2185 words)

	River Queen debuts at film festival \| ENTERTAINMENT \| NEWS \| tvnz.co.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		River Queen is among more than 300 films showing at the Toronto Film Festival including a a murder mystery surrounding a 1950s lounge act, which took centre stage on Tuesday.
		The film jumps between the 1950s, when the duo were at their peak, and the 1970s, when a reporter, played by Alison Lohman, tries to unlock the mystery of the dead woman.
		But styling the film as a murder mystery is new territory for the Canadian director, who readily acknowledges he's hoping Where the Truth Lies will have more commercial appeal than his previous movies, which have mostly received critical acclaim but middling box-office success.
	tvnz.co.nz /view/page/411423/611227 (687 words)

	The Queen of the Damned
		Its sweaty mythmaking matched by its thirty-something-decade whining, the film substitutes blood for semen in its kinky puerility (a rose-petal love scene is a classic in scarlet euphemism) and becomes boring and pat when it should've been trashy and unapologetic.
		The Queen of the Damned functions much better as a sociological exercise than a narrative, much in the same way as the badly overwritten Anne Rice historical melodramas (sort of Tolkien with bodice-ripping and for vampire mythology) upon which it is based.
		The Queen of the Damned suffers from the same brand of confusion as the loneliness and fear that fosters a wish for a Don Juan superhero invulnerability.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/queenofthedamned.htm (749 words)

	THE AFRICAN QUEEN
		I should have known a film with that kind of cast filmed by a brilliant director would be anything but ordinary.
		Though the African Queen has adventure, danger, and humor, it is, in the end, a lovely romance.
		Bogart was the only one to win the Oscar among this film's nominees, but it's clear he wouldn't have won without the glowing presence of his co-star and the brilliant direction of Huston.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsA/f_african_queen.html (841 words)

	Alan Bates Television Archive: "Bertie & Elizabeth"
		But the film, titled "Bertie and Elizabeth," will also follow the more private nature of the love affair between the young Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and the younger son of George V and Queen Mary.
		The film is being shot in and around Bath with Longleat, the palatial home of the Marquis of Bath, standing in for Buckingham Palace interior shots and Sandringham and Balmoral in some exterior scenes.
		The Queen Mother is one of Britain's most enduring icons, and TV bosses are aware of this, having given the green light to a story of her life.
	alanbates.com /abarchive/tv/bertie.html (775 words)

	Aelita: Queen of Mars
		Aelita: Queen of Mars is a stunning portrayel of an interplanetary future.
		Although this film is quite comic, it exemplifies the shift from humor to realism in science fiction film that was happening throughout the 1920's, as it also conveys a serious tone.
		Great attention is paid to the set design, costumes and overall style of this film, which is futuristic and becomes highly influential to the design and style of films that come after it.
	www.umich.edu /~umfandsf/film/films/aelita.html (148 words)

	It's good to be the Queen
		She also is an Oscar-nominated actress ("Chicago") and a film producer with one blockbuster under her belt ("Bringing Down the House") and a second likely hit on its way ("Beauty Shop").
		Indeed, before she was a film star, Latifah was "the first lady of rap." The Grammy winner also manages other artists and has her own record label.
		She made her film debut in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" in 1992, becoming one of the first rap artists to cross over successfully into film.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0329latifah29.html (1229 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Carrey premiere for the Queen
		Carrey and the film's director Ron Howard were among celebrities at the charity screening, staged in the Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, central London, on Wednesday.
		The actor said the costume he had worn for the film, for his new film - in which plays a grumpy recluse resembling a green monster - had been "excruciatingly painful".
		The film is based on a story by children's author and illustrator Dr Seuss.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/1025293.stm (309 words)

	[ Times & Free Press Movie Reviews: Victoria's love of Scotsman gives royal treat to viewers ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And the film, directed by John Madden and written by Jeremy Brock with penetrating acuity, also sees the exquisite tension between Victoria's wishes and her obligations.
		The Queen does not even deign to look at Brown the first time he is in her presence.
		As her royal role reclaims the Queen, it overwhelms the private concerns at the heart of the film.
	www.timesfreepress.com /cityscape/diversions/filmfinder/mrsbrown.html (871 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- Driving Queen Vicky / Stylish `Mrs. Brown' paints Victoria as an English `Miss Daisy'
		If you've ever looked at Queen Elizabeth's bitter, shut-down face and wondered what she was thinking as she dragged herself through one more meaningless function, the answer may be found in ``Mrs.
		The queen takes no apparent pleasure in her emotional tyranny but seems incapable, having been crowned at 18, of knowing any other way to behave.
		Using a gimmick from the old ``Upstairs, Downstairs'' miniseries, Madden introduces the queen's enormous staff and shows the extent to which they're afraid to drop protocol, or even to look at the queen, without her consent.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/07/25/DD5330.DTL (632 words)

	The Film Queen - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Films seen but not yet reviewed are denoted with a "?".
		As sharp and grating as the opening shot of knife on whetstone, this raw, unsparing film of poverty, despair, drugs, children, guns, and gangs is utterly unforgettable and the best film of 2002.
		That life could go on without seeing children (some seemingly as young as 4 and 5) killing each other, or older children killing adults for kicks, or young men raping a woman and killing her boyfriend's family because she wouldn't dance with one of them.
	www.thefilmqueen.com (383 words)

	PopcornQ Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When the queen meets Antonio (John Gilbert) in a country tavern/inn (where she is traveling in male disguise), they end up having to share a room together.
		According to D'Acosta, she and Garbo had developed the film together, and D'Acosta was fired as screenwriter from the project because she was making it too clear that the queen was a lesbian.
		The queen thereafter toys with the affections of a court ambassador (whom she's obviously not interested in) until she meets Antonio.
	www.planetout.com /kiosk/popcornq/db/getfilm.html?1891 (424 words)

	Helen Mirren to play the Queen in Diana film
		As the public remembers Diana, the Princess of Wales, on the seventh anniversary of her death on Tuesday, it has been revealed a new film based on the tragedy is being planned.
		Dame Helen Mirren is set to star as Queen Elizabeth II in the movie, which examines the relationship between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street in the week following the late royal's deadly Paris car crash on August 31, 1997.
		The film is from the same team which made the acclaimed Channel 4 drama The Deal, which looked at the relationship between Prime Minister Blair and Gordon Brown over the Labour Party leadership.
	www.hellomagazine.com /film/2004/08/31/helenmirren (254 words)

	the escape of the queen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Elena is a little girl, a little Queen, who grows up in the wonderful world of her dreams.
		Years later, Elena, now a film student, tries to discover her self through the camera lens observing the people that surround her.
		Il film dura il tempo che Elena impiega per finire il suo film, intitolato "The Escape of the Queen".
	www.riff.it /inglese/pasteditions/RIFF04/international/queen.htm (442 words)

	The Queen (1968) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Running just over an hour and filmed with hand-held cameras, THE QUEEN is tacky, vulgar, distasteful, embarrassing, and often quite funny as it peeks behind the scenes of the event.
		THE QUEEN is really too superficial to be called significant, too tacky-funny to be taken very seriously--and yet, it does make you wonder about the lives of those before the Stonewall Riots, the Gay Liberation Movement, the Anita Bryant hysteria, the advent of AIDS.
		And therein lies its power: it is a time machine, badly filmed, yes, superficial, yes, but a time machine just the same, capable of giving us a glimpse of what it was like to be gay, a drag queen, and in New York in the mid-1960s.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0063477 (493 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: The Queen of the Damned
		The Queen of the Damned is no exception to the rule, despite attempts to become something more, but it still manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire fun.
		The Queen of the Damned stars Stuart Townsend as the vampire Lestat, a character first made popular in film by Tom Cruise in the engaging Interview With the Vampire.
		Sadly, this is most obvious in the case of the film’s weakest link, the Queen of the Damned herself.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/677ed26076951bfd88256b670018b3fa?OpenDocument (844 words)

	From the Queen to the Chief Executive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The film does a surprisingly excellent job in presenting the travails of a group of prisoners who were incarcerated as minors and detained at "Her Majesty's discretion," meaning that they have no set sentence for their crimes.
		From the Queen to the Chief Executive is a film that rewards multiple viewings, not because of splashy special effects or twisted story lines, but because of characterization.
		This is a relatively simple part of film that many directors choose to ignore, and From the Queen to the Chief Executive is a refreshing return to a time when a good story was the cornerstone of a film, not its' budget or star.
	www.hkfilm.net /fromquen.htm (513 words)

	Tabu and Milind Soman are cartoons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The film titled Bhagmati — The Queen of Fortunes is based on the legend of the queen and is partly fact and partly fiction.
		The film is directed by Ashok Kaul who assisted the late Raj Kapoor on films like Ram Teri Ganga Maili and Heena and directed Param Vir Chakra.
		The film has Tabu playing a contemporary young woman who visits some historical place only to realize that she and her boyfriend (Soman) were Bhagmati and Qutb Shah in their previous life.
	www.indiafm.com /scoop/04/jul/2007tabu/index.shtml (305 words)

	Film \| Return of the queen
		But the warrior queen who gave the Romans an awful fright is suddenly back in all her majesty - as the subject of four new Hollywood movies.
		But every British schoolchild knows (one might hope) that Boadicea was the warrior queen from present-day East Anglia who rose against her Roman oppressors after they appropriated her Iceni tribe's estates and then flogged her and raped her two daughters for good measure.
		Something sexual, perhaps." The makers of a 1967 film called Viking Queen (even though she was a Celtic Briton) seem to have recognised this, playing fast and loose with the Boadicea legend and including a great deal of gratuitous nudity and violence.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4959858-3181,00.html (1878 words)

	RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach, Ca.
		A floating city awash in elegance, the Queen Mary in Long Beach, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, remains one of the most famous ships in history.
		The Queen Mary features 365 hotel staterooms, an elaborate Champagne Sunday Brunch, award winning restaurants and dining, a wedding chapel and 16 Art Deco reception salons for private celebrations, and exciting tours.
		Once again, the Queen Mary will be transformed into the most gruesome collection of the most terrifying mazes anywhere for Shipwreck 2005, the 11th annual Queen Mary Halloween Terrorfest.
	www.queenmary.com (359 words)

	channel4.com/film - Meet the queen of British horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After five successful years as the artistic director of the Edinburgh Film Festival, during which she championed the inclusion of "good horror" in the festival's programme with the innovative Late Night Romp strand, she "took a leap into the void" and resigned in 2001.
		This "meeting of minds" revealed a mutual love of the horror genre and, before long, plans for the creation of a new arm of Little Bird, with a remit to "develop and make intelligent horror films", were being laid.
		Buoyed by the recent success of UK horror flicks 28 Days Later and Dog Soldiers, her vision is that Ministry Of Fear will champion 'smart' British horror that reflects the anxieties of the age we live in.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/feature.jsp?id=125765 (415 words)

	Journal of Popular Film and Television: THE QUEEN IN SHINING ARMOR: Safe Eroticism and the Gay Friend
		Why does a film that is seemingly about heterosexual love end not with sex, not with marriage (for the protagonist, anyway) but with an ecstatic (and extended) dance routine involving our heroine and her gay friend?
		But the films I will discuss are aimed at the same audience as the majority of self-help books: middle-class women in their mid-twenties and up.
		This sexual climate, in which men are potentially dangerous and hugging is better than sex, gives birth to a unique relationship between the straight woman and her gay confidante.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_1_28/ai_63566575 (1475 words)

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