Name a famous Queen?
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There have been many Queens, name one Past or Present.
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Mab
Latifah
Boudica
Queen
Oh, Freddie Mercury not removed & we’re in General, therefore…
Elton John :)
Isabella of Spain (who’s political and military power is thought to have inspired the modern queen piece in chess).
RuPaul!!
Boudicca
Aethelflaed
The Queen of Sheba, the stuff of legends.
“The queen of Sheba (מַֽלְכַּת־שְׁבָׄא, malakat-shaba in the Hebrew Bible, βασίλισσα Σαβὰ in the Septuagint) came to Jerusalem “with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones” (I Kings 10:2). “Never again came such an abundance of spices” (10:10; II Chron. 9:1–9) as those which she gave to Solomon. She came “to prove him with hard questions”, all of which Solomon answered to her satisfaction. They exchanged gifts, after which she returned to her land.[6][2]”
Much more is written about her if you should be curious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Sheba
I remember my mother saying to my sister (when she’d get a little out of hand) “Who do you think you are? The Queen of Sheba?”
@David_Achilles Ah King Solomon’s love that’s a good answer, btw my mother said that to me once or twice when i thought too much of myself and thought i knew it all lol.
Mary, Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567.
Maria Theresa, the only ruler I can think of from the horribly misnamed Holy Roman Empire.
Queen Christina of Sweden, daughter of Gustavas Adolphus, who may have been responsible for the death of Descartes. She requested that he teach her philosophy in the wee hours of the morning, which was too much for Descartes. (There is an alternative theory that Descartes was murdered for his supposedly blasphemous statements.) Christina was known for her flamboyance and also for being a lesbian.
Queen Anne, the lady who Queen Anne’s lace is named after.
Eleanor of Aquitane, born Dutchess of Aquitaine, Countess of Poitou, Countess of Poitiers. At 16 she became Queen of France (Louis VII), at twenty-five led the Second Crusade to Jerusalem and at twenty-nine became Queen of England (Henry II). She was the niece of Pope Celestine III (who served as her lifelong confidant and political protector) and became the mother of Kings John and Richard I of England.
She was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. She sponsored the some of the greatest authors and artists of the era and survived the most vicious political intrigues of her time—including those perpetrated against her by her two sons. She spent nine years under house arrest afterwich she survived to live to 81 years old and died free as Queen Dowager of England in 1204.
Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She was the last of the Tudors. She held her throne alone for 45 years ruling by good counsel and equanimity (some Catholics may disagree) instead of fear and force like her predecessors. Among many, many other things, she built the Royal Navy, defeated the Spanish Armada, and because of her, Britain became a world-wide force to be reckoned with for the next 400-plus years.
Wondering what the impetus for this question is.
@janbb Don’t over think so much It’s a question that i wanted to ask and get some answers about queens (Don’t even know why i’m explaining ) asking a question like everyone else makes a choice to ask any question they want for what ever reason…seems it was an interesting one seeing the response it’s got.
Juana the Mad of Castile, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella. Until recently, she came down in history as the result of close, relentless, Hapsburg inbreeding, a complete wackjob. But recent revisionism now attributes her apparent madness on bad press created by the intriguing, ambitious male scoundrels immediately within her court and a life of emotional abuse.
Just being raised in that particular Spanish court as a designated heir to the throne would be enough to drive someone over the bend. Mama Isabella wasn’t exactly a paragon of sanity herself; she felt it her duty to rid Spain of all but Catholics in order to repay God for all that New World gold he gave her after financing the conquistadores, starting with Columbus— even if it meant killing off her most important advisors and financiers (Jews) and the Spanish business community (Jews and Moors) to the point of state bankruptcy, letting all that gold slip through her fingers. And her Confessor, Torquemada, would ensure that good, old fashioned, punitive Catholicism would be carried through into the family as it was throughout the country in his Inquisition. Nobody in that court was batting a thousand. But Juana comes to us as the Mad One.
Juana had one shining moment in her whole manic-depressive life and that was she was betrothed to Philip the Handsome whom she loved very much. Sadly, he didn’t reciprocate prefering the whores of Madrid. But when he soon died, she mourned him wildly, cutting herself, refusing to eat, sleep or bathe, and insisted on sleeping with his unembalmed body for nearly a month—until she was finally drugged and he was taken away. Her father soon became regent for her infant son and Juana was pushed out of the historic picture except as a target for ribald humor and political satire.
@Espiritus_Corvus WOW! now this is food for thought, seriously you always bring such interesting and great feedback/facts to everyone’s questions…This is intriguing indeed..Very Interesting!
Wu Zetian – the only queen of China.
Hibiscus – the guy who put flowers in gun barrels during the Pentagon levitation protest. Later on he founded the Cockettes.
Princess Diana, I kissed her as a young teen…which was nice.
@rojo I saw a movie about her, it was pretty sweet.
@gailcalled Yeah, she, through no fault of her own, discovered a whole new meaning to being on the Dole.
An argument could be made that female monarchs, and perhaps female rulers in general, have been more successful than their male counterparts. One explanation would be that women are better suited for such positions. While I would not dismiss that out of hand, I think a more likely possibility is that women overall have comparable leadership abilities, but the prejudice against them has required women of exceptional ability to even be able to get into positions of power. Consider the irony of Henry VIII being so hung up on having a male heir, but it was his daughter Elizabeth who became such an outstanding ruler.
@janbb “I’m wondering about the impetus for this question.” I thought your question fitting and reasonable…
David_Achilles The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by Handel, I love this piece of music.
Guinevere. Arwen. Galadriel. Varda Elentari.
@LostInParadise
Though to be fair to Henry VIII he, most likely, wasn’t really right in the head after falling off his horse and landing on his head. He was, by all accounts, a respectful, fair and reasonable monarch before that. The sudden change in his personalty was likely the result of a traumatic brain injury.
^^ and severe gout, diabetes, probably hypertension, and there was also talk of the “scourge” (syphilis). He was not a well man toward the end.
Points well taken, but it is interesting how his obsession about having a son was just an extreme form of the general attitude toward men and women. It would really have been something if he had instead obsessed over the need to have a daughter.
@LostInParadise
Fair enough. My understanding is that his obsession with having a male heir was, injuries aside, driven to some degree by concern for the future of the Tudor dynasty. England had just went through decades of conflict between rivals families for the crown. The House of Tudor somehow managed to emerge victorious from this conflict, though their claim to the throne was somewhat tenuous. Henry felt that having a male heir would bring legitimacy to their dynasty. Well his daughter, Elizabeth, did establish that legitimacy (as well as becoming one of the more long-lived and powerful English monarchs) he sought, but she never never married and died childless, thus ending the Tudor dynasty after only little more than a century.
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