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How to use crown in a sentence

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The crown is embellished with tiny whitework flowers filled with intricate needlepoint lace fillings.
He raises the crown into the golden rays of summer sunshine streaming through the windows.
The School of Music is the jewel in the crown of Cork's cultural infrastructure.
While the position of the crown had weakened, the power of the state had grown.
Because his own title to the crown was doubtful, he laid claim to that of France.
The 'Barlow lens', a modification of this telescope lens, is a negative achromatic combination of flint glass and crown glass.
Josh ran his hand along her brown hair, kissing her lightly on the crown of her head.
They were duly printed out on the official paper, which was watermarked and crown headed.
He has been denied his crown and denounced by the all-powerful Roman Empire and when he finds a state to grant him refuge, Rome threatens war.
The crown of P3 is slightly larger and more nearly quadrate in occlusal view than P3 of N. serrator.
No buttons should be used under water and the crown of an analogue watch should not be pulled out when the watch is wet.
She'd landed on her bottom, legs akimbo, and her long red ringlets of hair had flopped forward, vaulting the crown of her head to hide her eyes.
And finally, there is the jewel in the crown of this dynasty of abnormality, David's sister, Amy.
A club that has always boasted potential is now a club who are within reach of their first Senior Championship crown in 29 years.
Tipp were reigning All Ireland Champions, while Waterford were looking for their first Munster crown in 39 years.
Laois were very much alive and kicking and all other pretenders to the crown sat up and took notice after a superb performance at O'Moore Park.
Young trees produce many long shoots, which should contribute to rapid crown construction and height growth.
For those who don't know, the Honours of Scotland are the regalia or crown jewels, mostly dating from the early sixteenth century.
The crown took other measures to make the scales of justice less weighted against the peasantry.
The crown and roots of these infected plants turn dark and soft, and the leaves usually wilt.
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Earlier this month, a retired greyhound defeated a top racehorse to claim the crown of fastest animal in the racing world.
Our reservoirs and surrounding countryside are the jewel in our crown when we play host to visitors and tourists.
They really are the jewel in the crown of the gardens because of their historical and cultural importance.
But Curzon had a will of his own, and servant of the crown or no, he always got his way.
With one or both side brims snapped up to the crown you get a rakish look which also stiffens the front brim against wind.
The island is a crown possession with wide independent powers under a lieutenant governor.
They sit beside every road junction, crown every hilltop, lie deep in the bottom of the island's wildest ravines.
It shared the same yellow lores, median crown stripe, and goatee-like black malar markings.
This ruling permitted the crown officers administering the book trade considerable latitude in redistributing privileges.
The magistrates decided against sending the boy to crown court for a harsher sentence.
If that is true of licensing justices, the same must be true of the crown court.
Swindon magistrates remanded him in custody and committed the case to crown court.
At the Treaty of Paris in 1259 Henry III accepted that he held Aquitaine as a fief of the French crown and owed liege homage.
A Lamaist monk, he wears a five-part ritual crown similar to the one in Plate XIII, from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
These days, Tirico announces everything from the World Cup to the NBA finals to the crown jewel, Monday Night Football.
Sunken, water-soaked spots also appear on the leafstalks of rhubarb plants which have been infected with phytophthora species fungi causing crown rot.
A Beijing liquor company has applied for trademark registration on a triangular logo made up of likenesses of Japanese Emperors Hirohito and Akihito and crown prince Naruhito.
Charles XI and his absolutist advisers knew the commoner Estates would recommend a full resumption of crown lands as the basis for budgetary reform.
A wisdom tooth has been reported facing the second molar, crown to crown.
Under the Norman and Angevin kings the pleas of the crown were noted by the sheriff and any fines due to the king from these offences were collected by him.
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But, he says, what ultimately makes a hat look good on a person is the symmetry of the crown of their head to their jaw line.
Courtney stands in stark contrast to Bianca Del Rio, whose crown it is to lose.
Then I drew on the white silk robe, embroidered with the Yellow Sign, and placed the crown upon my head.
Women tend to lose their hair in an all-over thinning pattern, while men tend to experience a receding hairline and general balding over the crown and temples.
The crown jewel of the collection is a ballgown of tulle with a beaded bodice.
When crown prince Friedrich Augustus of Saxony married Maria Josepha of Austria in 1719, the party raged for a full 28 days.
As an act of humility, before a mass to which she had invited the poor, she gave the royal scepter to the most indigent and had the royal crown placed on his head.
It has been determined that the Abuna is to place the crown and ring upon Her Majesty, without the regal anointing, on the same day of the Emperor's coronation.
There was, of course, no honeymoon, and to crown it all a telegram arrived at the end of the week recalling my new husband to his unit because the posting had been cancelled.
The demise of the Chakri dynasty is unthinkable for most Thai, but they dread their crown prince.
In kundalini yoga you attempt to move energy from the base of your spine through chakras or energy centers to the crown of your head to bring about illumination.
Last year, crown princess Mary of Denmark gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
The crown prince explained that the first time he saw his future wife, she was hiding behind the lens of a big camera.
What has been created in Edinburgh is the jewel in the crown for Harcourt.
Other diseases include rust, crown gall, anthracnose and petal blight.
They referred Crossley to the crown court where he will appear next month.
And Galway is the shining jewel in the crown of the Irish racing industry.
The idea was that such men would be more tractable and less likely to alienate the fief from the crown out of their own greed.
Louis the German, then in rebellion, received nothing of the crown jewels or liturgical books associated with Carolingian kingship.
Do the words angel, half-angel, 'fine' sovereign, hammered coin, milled edge, ryal, half pound, or even half crown mean anything to you?
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The winner received a crown and, as with the winner of The Canterbury Tales, a free dinner.
He always wrote of Sussex as if it were the crown of England and the western Sussex Downs the jewel in that crown.
These have only a ceremonial role, but are authorised by the statutes of their orders to wear the same crown as Garter at a coronation.
Greens come in all shapes and sizes, fast, slow, big crown, small crown and so on.
The triple crown continued through 1989, after which the Pocono race was discontinued.
Just like their sister team in F3, ART were the leaders of the field and reigning champions having taken the 2005 GP2 crown with Nico Rosberg.
Teething problems with the new engine meant he would lose the crown to Hailwood.
They would end up tied but, Hailwood took the crown due to having five wins to Read's four.
He successfully defended his crown in 1974 in what would be the last world championship for the legendary Italian marque.
Vertical gradients of mineral elements in Pinus sylvestris crown in alkalised soil.
Woodbridge then went for an 11th Wimbledon crown in the last match of the championships.
Divide the top half of the hair into three sections and backcomb the section at the back of the crown to give height.
The islands and fishing grounds that are now a jewel in the crown of tourism were from the earliest days populated and prized by Maori as taonga.
The crown is semiglobular and rounded, with a transverse crest and a long uvula that does not extend beyond the root.
Notwithstanding Dartmouth's connections with the crown and respectable society, it was a major base for privateering in medieval times.
This survey allowed the government to begin taxing landowners directly, moving it beyond dependence on revenue from crown lands.
The thrusters often had to push the corf using their heads, leading to the hair on their crown being worn away and the child becoming bald.
Also, one could have fairly high crown or wedge, but still produce material that is flat.
When the monarchy was restored in 1660 all confiscated land returned to the crown and church.
Instead, the crown and sceptre would be placed on cushions beside the throne and the robes would be draped on the throne.
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After Oscar II's death, his successor, Gustav V would never have undergone a coronation and thus did not wear the crown when opening the Riksdag.
Home nevertheless arranged that in Scotland new pillar boxes were decorated with the royal crown instead of the full cypher.
When he died in December 1135, the couple were in Anjou, allowing Matilda's cousin Stephen to seize the crown of England.
As the British crown took control of type founding in 1637 printers fled to the Netherlands.
The crown also appointed the court chirographer, the officer responsible for noting final concords and filing records of fines.
In May 1776, Congress voted to suppress all forms of crown authority, to be replaced by locally created authority.
The HBC negotiated a trading monopoly from the English crown for the Hudson Bay watershed, called Rupert's Land.
In 1580 the Portuguese crown was united in a personal union with the Spanish crown, with which the Dutch Republic was at war.
The Great Seal shows Philip and Mary seated on thrones, holding the crown together.
Philip and Mary appeared on coins together, with a single crown suspended between them as a symbol of joint reign.
To elevate Philip to Mary's rank, his father ceded the crown of Naples, as well as his claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, to him.
In April 1528, when Philip was eleven months old, he received the oath of allegiance as heir to the crown from the Cortes of Castile.
The crown also set up warehouses to store up to a year's worth of supplies, including paper for cigarettes, for the manufactories.
In 1765 the crown created a monopoly on tobacco, which directly affected agriculture and manufacturing the Veracruz region.
In the late eighteenth century the crown devoted some resources to the study and remedy the problem of poor roads.
The new Mexican Empire offered the crown to Ferdinand VII or to a member of the Spanish royal family that he would designate.
The crown also established a standing military, with the aim of defending its overseas territories.
The crown also restricted the diamond mining within its jurisdiction and to private contractors.
The crown and private merchants who had outfitted the ships expected full cargoes of spices to return to Lisbon.
The Portuguese crown was eager to tap into that gold source, but Gama's armada had failed to find it.
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Cabral's armada famously discovered Brazil for the Portuguese crown along the way.
Vespucci organized the fulfillment of Berardi's outstanding contract with the Castilian crown to provide twelve vessels for the Indies.
Isabella's crown and scepter, and Ferdinand's sword, are preserved in the Capilla Real of Granada.
The crown agreed to pay a sum of money as a concession from monarch to subject.
They were given the option to accept the authority of the Pope and Spanish crown or face being attacked and subjugated.
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy.
She proclaimed the Tianshou era of Wu Zhou on October 16, 690, and three days later demoted Emperor Ruizong to crown prince.
The crown prince was banished to Yangzhou for life by his father, Kublai Khan.
Being a crown industry, cost considerations did not curb the pursuit of the best quality, best innovations and best training.
Private Portuguese merchants did, however, routinely contract for cargo, carried aboard crown ships for freight charges.
The Kingdom of Valencia became the third member of the crown together with Aragon and Catalonia.
The court of Ferdinand and Isabella was constantly on the move, in order to bolster local support for the crown from local feudal lords.
Publicly, he replied that he could not accept a crown without the consent of the actual states, by which he meant the princes.
Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses's people go.
Anyway, at least I had created the pinchbeck crown in which Dai could place his jewel.
The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.
Though often considered the king of gamebirds, ruffed grouse don't wear the crown regally.
But despite her ordeal kindly Alma asked a judge at the city's crown court to help the rough sleeper rather than punish him.
Basically, the crown of tooth is apicobasally elongated lanceolate shape and enameled on the labial side.
I see a deep deep sky, Which wears a crown of gold-tipped clouds, In which beglisten stars.
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A GWYNEDD-based roller hockey club could compete for the North Wales crown at a competition being staged on Deeside.
The crown jewels in the United Kingdom are heavily guarded and anyone trying to steal them will certainly have a hard time.
Nowadays the beaming smile is often brighter than the crown when a beauty contest queen is presented with her winning sash and tiara.
Drop-crotching holds the crown within set limits without spoiling appearance.
Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
Female patients with localized hair loss on the top of scalp could select a fall or a demiwig to camouflage crown and anterior scalp loss.
I always supposed he was called Goog because the tiny flattened ears did nothing to interrupt the goog-like sweep from crown to jaw.
Thereafter the island was under control of the English crown and its Lordship a royal appointment.
Each crown appointed three astronomers and cartographers, three pilots and three mathematicians.
Since that time the title has passed through the hands of many, being merged with the crown and then recreated several times.
In the 16th century, the crown took an increasing role in the supply of military equipment.
A crown was not part of the arms but use of a crowned harp was apparently common as a badge or as a device.
The difference between the arms and device of Ireland appears to be on the crown only, which is added to the harp when used as a device.
At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences, he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby.
William symbolically wore his crown in the ruins of York on Christmas Day 1069, and then proceeded to buy off the Danes.
The king was at Gloucester for Christmas 1080 and at Winchester for Whitsun in 1081, ceremonially wearing his crown on both occasions.
When he died in November 1135, the couple were in Anjou, allowing Matilda's cousin Stephen to seize the crown of England.
By 1169, however, Henry had decided to crown his son Young Henry as king of England.
The king had a steady income from crown lands, and could also take up substantial loans from Italian and domestic financiers.
If Mary's issue failed, the crown was to go to Elizabeth, Henry's daughter by Anne Boleyn, and her heirs.
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The crown could also rely on the exclusive use of those functions that constituted the royal prerogative.
Henry established a new political theology of obedience to the crown that was continued for the next decade.
To elevate his son to Mary's rank, Emperor Charles V ceded to Philip the crown of Naples as well as his claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male.
With that lesson learned, the crown was far more prudent in the specifying the terms of exploration, conquest, and settlement in new areas.
Castile provided the Spanish crown with most of its revenues and its best troops.
After 1636, however, Olivares halted the advance, fearful of provoking another crown bankruptcy.
With the bankruptcy of the London Company in 1624, the settlement was taken into royal authority as an English crown colony.
Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd had usurped the crown from his siblings in a debilitating civil war within Gwynedd.
In late 1185 the crown was ready, but John's visit had by then proved a complete failure, so Henry cancelled the coronation.
James instituted a wholesale purge of those in offices under the crown opposed to James's plan.
Although he was proclaimed King in Jersey, Charles was unable to secure the crown of England and consequently fled to France and exile.
Some members of Parliament even proposed that the crown go to Charles's illegitimate son, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.
However, when the monarch dies, the successor to the crown does not automatically become Head of the Commonwealth.
It accused the crown of extortion, perversion of justice, and election fraud.
And then rises up again in a great jet of gold to the higher roof that curves gracefully upwards to a spire with a crown and flowers and a cross.
They can be embroidered, or in the East, they are more like a beaded cloth crown with a shawl.
A further variant omits the crown entirely and is featured prominently throughout the building.
The Committee hears appeals from the appellate courts of many independent Commonwealth nations and crown dependencies.
The mural crown is a frequent symbol of local government, but here also suggests a well head.
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Taylor retained his World Cup of Darts crown alongside Adrian Lewis in February.
Finally, the race to crown the fakest sports fan in America had begun.
Because the Queen died unmarried and childless, the English crown passed to the next available heir, her cousin James VI, King of Scotland.
A cap of crimson velvet is shown within the crown, with the cap's ermine lining appearing at the base of the crown in lieu of a torse.
The shape of the arches of the crown has been represented differently at different times, and can help to date a depiction of the crest.
He let Strongbow hold Leinster in fief and declared the cities to be crown land.
He let Strongbow hold Leinster in fief and declared Dublin, Wexford and Waterford to be crown land.
Edward's ploy worked, and the claimants to the crown were forced to acknowledge Edward as their Lord Paramount and accept his arbitration.
In 1603, following the death of the childless Queen Elizabeth I, the crown of England passed to James.
The imperial crown was hereditary in the House of Hohenzollern, the ruling house of Prussia.
Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert in 1924, the red telephone box features a prominent crown representing the British government.
Following Haakon's death later that year Norway ceded the islands of western Scotland to the Scottish crown in 1266 by the Treaty of Perth.
Between the Statute of Rhuddlan of 1284 and the Laws in Wales Act 1535, crown land in Wales formed the Principality of Wales.
Politicians were accused of selling crown land for personal gain and misusing public funds.
Edward's royal crown with the name of the country across a scroll underneath, all on a blue background.
When prince Sultan died before ascending to the throne on 21 October 2011, King Abdullah appointed Prince Nayef as crown prince.
Ottokar's son Wenceslaus II acquired the Polish crown in 1300 for himself and the Hungarian crown for his son.
Louis XI gave, in 1475, the crown of Margaret of York, and, in 1481, another arm reliquary of Charlemagne.
This lasted until the Parliament of Ireland conferred the crown of Ireland upon King Henry VIII of England during the English Reformation.
The property qualification for voters was for freeholders who held land from the crown of the value of 40s of auld extent.
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In the sixteenth century the crown began to employ Flemish court painters who have left a portrait record of royalty.
This was the first plenary of the Assembly to be held in a crown dependency.
Despite this, relationships between the Scottish crown and the Papacy were generally good, with James IV receiving tokens of papal favour.
David's relationship with England and the English crown in these years is usually interpreted in two ways.
Bruce asserted his claim to the Scottish crown and began his campaign by force for the independence of Scotland.
However, it is the base of the grass plant, the crown or clump that is important for regrowth.
Some sources suggest that Bruce offered a pact, whereby one would take the crown in return for the lands of the other.
His close links with the French crown created widespread distrust of the papacy.
After Charlemagne died in 814, the imperial crown passed to his son, Louis the Pious.
A version of the crown is used upon Royal Mail premises, vehicles and Scottish pillar and wall boxes.
Prior to John XXII's election, a contest had begun for the Holy Roman Empire's crown between Louis IV of Bavaria and Frederick I of Austria.
On 4 April 1558, Mary signed a secret agreement bequeathing Scotland and her claim to England to the French crown if she died without issue.
The crown had come to his family through a woman, and would be lost from his family through a woman.
New Hampshire, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and eventually Massachusetts were crown colonies.
The rank insignia of a field marshal in the British Army comprises two crossed batons in a wreath of oak leaves, with a crown above.
The Crown of Scotland is the crown that was used at the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland.
Both the king and crown prince are ill, and both are often unfit for duty.
The crown was melted down and Mosman added 41 ounces of gold mined at Crawford Moor in Lanarkshire.
The crown is encrusted with 22 gemstones, including garnets and amethysts, 20 precious stones and 68 Scottish freshwater pearls.
Police have said that the crown jewels were never at risk of being stolen.
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In ancient Greece, the laurel was used to form a crown or wreath of honour for poets and heroes.
The crown regarded Durham as falling within Northumberland until the late thirteenth century.
Some European king and queen's crowns were made of gold, and gold was used for the bridal crown since antiquity.
Unfortunately, before he could begin his reign, Gracianus took hold of the crown and made himself king over Dionotus.
By normal custom Idwal's crown should have passed to his sons, but Hywel intervened.
The loyalist leaders decided to crown Henry immediately to reinforce his claim to the throne.
The title is still given to the heir apparent to the British crown to this day.
The official account of events claims that Richard voluntarily agreed to resign his crown to Henry on 29 September.
A crown group is a group of closely related living animals plus their last common ancestor plus all its descendants.
Crowns, therefore, had a face value of 25p from decimalisation until 1981, when the last 25p crown was struck.
However, the double florin and crown with values of 20p and 25p respectively have not been withdrawn.
Last year's hero Hey Big Spender returns to defend his crown and won't give it up without a fight.
The bishops of Lichfield still swear allegiance to the crown on the Lichfield Gospels.
The captain's suggested design was changed only slightly and a crown was added.
Six years after his first world title, Jackson regained his 110m hurdles crown at the 1999 Seville World Championships.
Behind that is the venison, a popular meat around the Great Lakes and often eaten in steaks, sandwiches, and crown roasts for special events.
In 1020, he made a pilgrimage and offered his own crown upon the shrine as atonement for the sins of his forefathers.
Nevertheless, it is taken very seriously, and an award of a crown or a chair for poetry is a great honour.
This distinctive form of crown is formed from the sails and sterns of ships, and is associated with the Royal Navy.
The wicked knight leapt suddenly upon him, cutting off the top of the crown which the unction of sacred chrism had dedicated to God.
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This eventually led to the crown of Sicily being passed on to the Hohenstaufen Dynasty, who were Germans from Swabia.
In 1409, Martin I of Sicily, king of Sicily and heir to the crown of Aragon, defeated the Sardinians at the Battle of Sanluri.
His son, Pepin the Short, seized the crown of Francia from the weakened Merovingians and founded the Carolingian dynasty.
Under the rules of the Salic law the crown of France could not pass to a woman nor could the line of kingship pass through the female line.
The crown is bronze with a broad band around the head and a thin strip crossing the top of the head.
Of the crown genus Gavia, nearly ten prehistoric species have been named to date, and about as many undescribed ones await further study.
Then, in 1508, this was replaced with Maximilian's imperial crown when he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
As a result, the imperial crown was given to his rival Otto IV, the nephew of King John.
In its origin, therefore, the agnatic principle was limited to the succession to the crown of France.
In 1847, 8,000 British crown coins were minted in proof condition with the design using an ornate reverse in keeping with the revived style.
He hands the crown to his kinsman Constantine and is taken to the isle of Avalon to be healed of his wounds, never to be seen again.
Even if Edward IV was illegitimate, he could in any case claim the crown from Henry VI by right of conquest.
When James permanently annexed the islands to the crown in 1472, Scotland reached its greatest ever territorial extent.
The male has a dark grey crown from the top of its bill to its back, and chestnut brown flanking its crown on the sides of its head.
The Eurasian tree sparrow is smaller and more slender with a chestnut crown and a black patch on each cheek.
In Egyptian history, the snake occupies a primary role with the Nile cobra adorning the crown of the pharaoh in ancient times.
When the crown was restored by Charles II, the springtime festivals were restored.
Draped in an academic gown, the female figure of Alma Mater wears a crown of laurels and sits on a throne.
The Spanish crown found it difficult to enforce these laws in distant colonies.
The Spanish crown gathered such documentation, and contemporary Spanish translations were made for legal cases.
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Because he had been relieved of his duties as governor, the crown did not feel bound by that contract and his demands were rejected.
The government considers the duchy to be a crown body and therefore exempt from paying corporation tax.
Following the Norman Conquest, large areas of the country came into the possession of the crown and the church.
After Edward's death, the Normans were quick to point out that in accepting the crown of England, Harold had broken this alleged oath.
As the Tower is still officially a royal residence, and is also the location of the crown jewels, it remains the army's obligation to guard it.
This settled the succession to the French crown and laid the basis for the formation of the modern nation of France.
Its valley, down to Merseburg, contains many castles which crown the enclosing heights.
The feudal system was gradually abolished in the late 18th century, starting with the crown lands in 1765 and later the estates of the nobility.
In 1721, when the Great Northern War ended, the dukes of Gottorf lost their power and their land became Danish crown land.
For example, the English crown gave the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly on the fur trade in the entire Hudson Bay basin, an area called Rupert's Land.
The crown was set with six beryls of excellent size and color.
Lucius then died while John was in Ireland, and Henry obtained consent from Pope Urban III and ordered a crown of gold and peacock feathers for John.
As the Norman lordships became increasingly Gaelicized and made alliances with native chiefs, whose power steadily increased, crown control slowly eroded.
Edward protested by attending the ceremony wearing his crown and sword.
Edward claimed Henry had forfeited his right to the crown by allowing his queen to take up arms against his rightful heirs under the Act of Accord.
Her peacemaking also helped reconcile Henry with his daughters Mary and Elizabeth and fostered a good relationship between her and the crown prince.
Henry secured his crown principally by dividing and undermining the power of the nobility, especially through the aggressive use of bonds and recognisances to secure loyalty.
By contrast, in the kingdoms of the crown of Aragon, and especially in the Pyrenean kingdom of Navarre, law prevailed, and the monarchy was a contract with the people.
Over its 950 years of history Warwick Castle has been owned by 36 different individuals, plus four periods as crown property under seven different monarchs.
The policy of rapprochement with the English crown did not suit Louis's political ambitions, and for this reason he found it opportune to allow Henry to leave for England.
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Horatio promises to recount the full story of what happened, and Fortinbras, seeing the entire Danish royal family dead, takes the crown for himself.
During the singing of this antiphon, all stand in their places, and the monarch remains seated in the Coronation Chair still wearing the crown and holding the sceptres.
In 2004 a new replica of this crown was created for use by the Lord Lyon.
It consists of a trophy with a golden crown and a malachite plinth base.
There was a dramatic moment at St Andrews in 2000, as the ageing Jack Nicklaus waved farewell to the crowds, while the young challenger to his crown watched from a nearby tee.
Now the holder of a second title, Eubank relinquished his middleweight title and concentrated on defending his new crown at the higher weight of 12 st.
Indeed, the red enamel band of ever-growing incisors of rodents extends across the whole crown of the tooth, including the part enclosed in the alveolous within the jaw.
The citadel walls that crown the hill, on the slopes of which the modern city descends amphitheatrically into the sea, are remnants of Venetian fortifications.
They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
The convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass.
The whole crowd cringed as he got kicked in his crown jewels.
Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness.
Judaea greeted its monarch. He was to ascend to the immemorial sacring place of millennia of kings, there to be endued with the robe and crown of rule.
The crown was added to make the badge a specifically royal symbol.
From the towns, from the counties as wholes, and from many of its ancient lordships, the crown was entitled to archaic dues in kind, such as honey.
Of the royal regalia preserved in Palermo, the crown is Byzantine in style and the coronation cloak is of Arab craftsmanship with Arabic inscriptions.
When Margaret died in 1290, competition for the Scottish crown ensued.
To reach agreement, clauses were removed that would have had Edward renounce his claim to the French crown in return for territory in Aquitaine and the town of Calais.
Philip aimed to crown his son, Louis, king of England, and at a council at Soissons in April 1213, he drafted a possible relationship between the future France and England.
Finally, if Elizabeth's line became extinct, the crown was to be inherited by the descendants of Henry VIII's deceased younger sister, Mary, the Greys.
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The crown fairly quickly reassessed its relationship with Columbus and moved to assert more direct crown control over the territory and extinguish his privileges.
With what blossomless flowerage of sea-foam and blood-coloured foliage inwound It shall crown as a heifer's for slaughter the forehead for marriage uncrowned?
Frederick's acceptance of the Bohemian crown in defiance of the emperor marked the beginning of the turmoil that would develop into the Thirty Years' War.
However, a crown and orb was present on the lord protector's seal.
On 4 April 1660, Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda, in which he made several promises in relation to the reclamation of the crown of England.
Anne declared that she would temporarily waive her right to the crown should Mary die before William, and Mary refused to be made queen without William as king.
His son succeeded him after being chosen king by the citizens of London and a part of the Witan, despite ongoing Danish efforts in wresting the crown from the West Saxons.
Lead fusible plugs may be present in the crown of the boiler's firebox.
Taylor and Lewis won their fourth World Cup crown by overcoming the Netherlands in the final, with Lewis beating Van Gerwen in the deciding match.
They continued until the arrival of the Romans and after their departure, the crown passed to Vortigern, who sought help from the Saxons in fighting against Constans.
It is believed that Edward had promised the crown to William.
The charge of systematic corruption is less applicable to him, perhaps, than to any minister who ever served the crown for so great a length of time.
Hong Kong, a former British crown colony and currently a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, has a unicameral Legislative Council.
No other teams have won the triple crown more than twice in a row.
This Alan Wallace may be the same as the one listed in the 1296 Ragman Rolls as a crown tenant in Ayrshire, but there is no additional confirmation.
So a second coronation was held and once more the crown was placed on the brow of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Annandale, King of the Scots.
Alexander III visited Dumfries in 1264 to plan an expedition against the Isle of Man, previously Scots but for 180 years subjected by the crown of Norway.
In addition, his father Charles VI had disinherited him in 1420 and recognized Henry V of England and his heirs as the legitimate successors to the French crown instead.
The prospect of religious persecution by authorities of the crown and the Church of England prompted a significant number of colonization efforts.
The 1560 Reformation Settlement was not ratified by the crown for some years, and the question of church government also remained largely unresolved.

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