This made Anne the sister-in-law to two English queens.

It was said that an infamous ancestor, once favored by an English queen, had worn it.

She was also the most-married English queen, having had four husbands.

Her book Prayers or Meditations became the first book published by an English queen under her own name.

Thus Clarendon was the grandfather of two English queens, Mary II and Anne.

The story goes that the king was caught kissing one of the ladies-in-waiting of his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster.

Mary, the name of two English queens who were reigning monarchs.

Mary and Anne - both English queens in their own right - are accused of placing personal ambition above duty to their father.

The word for woman was spelled qvinna, similar to English queen.

Dame Helen is an old hand at playing English queens.