the Hungarian: " . . . Kazimierz loved banquets and enjoyed numerous love affairs although he nonetheless had thirteen children with his wife, Elizabeth Habsburg (known is Poland as Elizabeth the Hungarian), of whom eleven survived. . . ." (Stone: 23)
the Mother of Jagiellons: " . . . Kazicookmierz provided a good education for his sons, four of whom became crowned heads: Wladyslaw in Bohemia and Hungary, Jan Olbracht (John Albert) in Poland, Aleksander in Lithuania and then Poland, and Zygmunt in Poland-Lithuania. . . ." (Stone: 23)
the Diana of Her Day: " . . . Famed for her beauty, influential fashions and passion for sports, she is now often called the 'Diana of her day'. . . ." (Find a Grave)
the Princess Bride:
Elisabeth of Bavaria-Landshut, Electress of Brandenburg
the Beautiful Elsie: . . . [T]he younger (Friedrich I), as yet unmarried, subsequently wedded Elisabeth of Bavaria---graceful form, great blue eyes and profuse golden hair won for her the appellation of the 'Beautiful Elise. . . ." (The American Magazine, Vol. 18: 188)
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians (1876-1965)
the Red Queen: " . . . Her obvious sympathy for liberal causes earned her the indulgently affectionate nickname, 'the Red Queen.'. . . " (Find a Grave)
Elisabeth of Belgium
the Red Queen:
de la Paz
the Peacemaker.
the Strong.
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Elisabeth of the Palatinate
Signora Antica:
la Grecque (the Greek): "Elisabeth had a wide ranging education, studying philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, jurisprudence, history, modern and classical languages. Her siblings nicknamed her "La Grecque" ("The Greek") based on her skill with the ancient language." (Wikipedia)
the Saint:
the Greatest Woman of the German Middle Ages: [31]
de la Paz
the Peacemaker.
Carmen Sylva:
Regina Elisabeta:
Pfalzprinzessin Elisabeth Charlotte
Princess Palatine
Lieselotte
Liselotte, Duchesse d’Orléans
Madame
Madame Elisabeth-Charlotte of Bavaria, Duchess of Orleans.
the Red Princess:
Eliza Baletta.
la Baletta; La Balletta:
la Belle Madame Musard:
Belphoebe:
Bloody Bess:
Gloriana: "Belphoebe, in Spenser's Faerie Queene (book iii), represents the womanly character of Queen Elizabeth, as Gloriana, 'the greatest glorious Queene of Faerieland,' is intended to personify her queenly attributes. Belphoebe is a contraction of belle Phoebe, the beautiful Diana, and she accordingly figures as a huntress. . . ." (Frey: 39)
--" . . . Elizabeth, who was England's 'virgin' or maiden queen, had such a prosperous reign, so far as wealth and advancement in letters were concerned, that she went down to her grave as 'Good Queen Bess,' though she was a vain, fickle creature. . . ."
--"While Catherine was carrying on her intrigues with the pope and the high dignitaries of the Church of Rome, Elizabeth was patronizing the arts and industries of her own country and earning for herself the sobriquet of 'Good Queen Bess.'" (Old & Sold)
the Deliverer of God's People:
the Fairie Queene:
the Glory of Her Sex: An epithet which Voltaire gives to Queen Elizabeth, in the dedication of La Henriade. . . ." (Sobriquets and Nicknames, Vol 1888: 72)
the Great:
the Hackney of Her Own Vassals: [T]he French once derisively called Elisabeth I 'the hackney of her own vassals.' A mule, then as now, was an infertile hybrid with a reputation for being stubborn. . . ." (Weir)
the Miracle of Time: An epithet applied to Queen Elizabeth in an old printed description of the 'honourable entertainment' given to her at Cowdray House by Lord Montague in 1591, when she was addressed as The Miracle of Time, Nature's Glory, Fortune's Empress, the World's
Wonder. . . ." (Sobriquets & Nicknames, Vol 1888: 240)
the Queen of Shepherds:
the Queen of Virgins:
Queen of the Northern Seas:
the Peerless Oriana:
the True Diana (by Nash):
the Virgin Queen:
the Welsh Woman.
Blimp (by Edward, Duke of Windsor):
Cake (in many letters):
Cookie:
Grinners (by Sir Michael Duff):
Peter (by Bowes-Lyon family):
Queen Mummikins (by Sir Michael Duff):
That Fourteen-Carat Beauty (by Wallis, Duchess of Windor):
the Buffy: "He said: "I discovered the Queen Mum used to be called Buffy by her siblings because she was always buffing her nails." (Lifting the lid on royal nicknames)
the Dowdy Duchess (by Wallis Simpson):
the Fat Scotch Cook (by Edward, Duke of Windor):
the Fat Scottish Cook (by Wallis Simpson):
the Favourite Grandmother
the Last British Empress:
the Merry Mischief: "Elizabeth's childhood was an idyllic one. She and her younger brother were the babies of the family, beloved and indulged. She was known as 'Merry Mischief' because of the winning determination that would become her most notable characteristic. 'SOS. LSD. RSVP' ran a telegram she sent to her father as a small child, asking for money. She was educated at home by a governess. A good marriage, not intellectual achievement, was what was expected of young women of her background. 'I and my sisters all married well, some of us very well,' she said later. Charm, confidence and composure were more valuable than book-learning. These she had in spades, and they would serve her well." (The Guardian)
the Monster of Glamis (by Wallis, Duchess of Windsor):
the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe:
the Original Queen of Hearts:
the Queen Mother:
the Queen Mum:
the Queen of Hearts
the Smiling Duchess:
the Upmarket Alf Garnett:
England's Rose:
the Diana of the Shady Woods of the Rhine:
the Palatine Venues:
the Pearl of Britain: "Ru.' Yepert's mother was a daughter of King James I of England. Her name was Elizabeth. She was very beautiful and very good, and the people thought so much of her that they called her the 'Pearl of Britain'. Yet she, poor lady! had a very sorrowful life, of which we shall hear more than once as we follow her son's history." (Bushe. Rupert of the Rhine: 2)
the Pearl of Pearls:
the Rose of England:
the Queen of Hearts:
the Winter Queen: " . . . Elizabeth of Bohemia has been consigned to history as the rather sad figure evoked by the title 'The Winter Queen', on account of the fact that like the snow of Winter, her throne in Bohemia melted away with the first warm rays of rebellion. . . ." (Sutherland-Fisher)
Fair Geraldine:
Elizabeth Percy (Lady)
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the Good: "Elizabeth of York, surnamed the Good, wife of Henry VII, was one of the most learned women of her time. They were married in Westminster, January, 1486. It is said that the anthem of "God save the King" was written for the occasion. A very tender friendship existed between the Countess Margaret, the king's learned and accomplished mother, and her royal daughter-in-law. The favorite motto of Elizabeth was, 'Humble and reverent.' Her active benevolence and ever-liberal hand probably formed a counteracting influence to the avaricious propensities of her husband. Elizabeth died on the day on which she completed her thirty-seventh year. (History of the German Emperors and Their Contemporaries: 226)
the White Queen: " . . . Elizabeth Woodville was a skilled seductress. Her first husband was killed by King Edward IV, whom Elizabeth then lured into marriage with her irresistible beauty. Because she was considered a commoner, their marriage was a scandal in the kingdom — but she held her own. After several decades, many years of childbearing and the death of her husband, Elizabeth finally stepped out of the public eye to make way for her daughter: the 'White Princess.'" (Buzzfeed)
British courtesan & royal mistress
the Beautiful Margravine (Fr. la Belle Margavravine):
the Mother of the King's Son: " . . . Elizabeth Blount was to become famous as the King's mistress and the 'mother of the King's son'. . . ."
Bess of Hardwick: " . . . She built Hardwicke Hall, and founded the wealth and dignity of the Cavendish family."
the Ducal Countess (by Walpole)
Kitty Crocodile (by comedian Samuel Foote).
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Elizabeth Conyngham Marchioness of Conyngham |
la Belle Hamilton (the Beautiful Hamilton):
Elizabeth Villiers:
Squint-eyed Betty:
the Thorn (by Lady Bessborough):
Duchess of Bad Water Pressure
the Daughter of Satan (her biographer)
the Fair Geraldine:
--"The subject of this brief sketch is the Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, the second daughter. She is best known as 'The Fair Geraldine,' under that name her beauty having been celebrated by the poets of her own and of later times. . . ." (Blackburne, Vol. 1: 83)
--" . . . The portrait, according to Mr. Graves, 'does not represent what would now be called a beautiful woman. She had reddish hair and high cheekbones, and the chin was longer and more pointed than the strict rules of beauty allow; but her eyes were fine, the mouth had a sweet expression, the forehead expansive and intelligent, and brows well arched; altogether we can well imagine that the features . . . combined with the delicate complexion which usually accompanies auburn hair, made her a very lovely girl when first she met Surrey's eyes.'." (Webb)
the Maid of Bath: "Elizabeth Ann Linley (7 September 1754 – 28 June 1792), the beautiful wife of the Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Elizabeth came from a musical family and was known as the Maid of Bath thanks to her prodigious talents, primarily for singing." (Madame Guillotine)
the Belle of Baltimore:
Carrots:
the Princess of Madagascar (by Lady Caroline Lamb).
Elizabeth of Toss (Blessed).
the Blessed: "The last in our series of saintly princesses is the Blessed Elizabeth of Toss (1292-1338), the daughter of Andrew III of Hungary and Princess Fenenna of Poland. Elizabeth lost her mother when she was three, and was raised by her stepmother, Agnes of Habsburg. At the age of six, she was engaged to Wenceslas III of Bohemia, but the engagement was dissolved in 1305 under pressure from Albert of Habsburg, When another marriage plan, this time with Henry of Habsburg, likewise fell through, Agnes wanted Elizabeth to join her among the Poor Clares in the convent established in 1308 in Konigsfelden, on the site of Albert of Habsburg's assassination. In the end, Elizabeth entered the Dominican convent at Toss instead, and that is where she spent the last three decades of her life." (Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: 207)
Elizabeth von Arnim, Countess Russell.
the Smartest Woman of Her Century (by H.G. Wells)
Elizabeth I of Russia
Little Mother Tsarevna: " . . . One of the choristers, Alexei Razumovsky, was the last for the rest of her life, but she was constantly looking for new ones. 'Little Mother Tsarevna, how fine that Prince Orlov is,' lady-in-waiting Mavra Shepeleva wrote to Elizaveta, catching the tone of their coterie. . . ." (The Romanovs: 1613-1918: 157)
the Infamous:
the Most Beautiful Girl in Russia: "Now twenty-one, Elizaveta was often described as the 'most beautiful girl in Russia,' much to the irritation of the empress , who watched her cousin's little court for any hint of treason, ordering Marshal Munnich to 'find out who goes to Elizabeta's house' since hse drives out at night and people call out to her, showing their devoiton. Cabmen were hired 'to observe Her Imperial Highness.' Anna wa surely jealous of the Russian Venus." (The Romanovs: 1613-1918: 156)
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