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Queen Elizabeth

[Note: The name "Isabel" or "Isabella" is sometimes translated into English as "Elizabeth" or "Elisabeth."]

Among the women known to history as "Queen Elizabeth" are:

  • Elizabeth of Romania (1843-1916), queen consort of Romania: born Pauline Elisabeth Ottile Luise; wife of Charles I of Romania

* Elizabeth Woodville and Elizabeth of York are the only mother and daughter to have been queens consort of England.


The "Queen Elizabeth" in James Collinson[?]'s 1850 painting The Renunciation of Queen Elizabeth of Hungary (Image (http://artyzm.com/world/c/collinson/renunciation.htm)) is not a queen at all but a princess: St. Elizabeth of Hungary[?] (1207-1231), the daughter of Andrew II of Hungary.


There is also a Queen Elizabeth class of Dreadnought battleships

See also: the ocean liners[?] R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth and R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth 2.



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