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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 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) 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.