The sets of this high drama at the court of Philip II were disappointing.
The second was Philip II's decision to move his court from Toledo to Madrid in 1561.
But the Philip II bonanza has distracted Spaniards' attention and diverted them from a far harder task.
Prince Philip II of Spain gave it as a wedding gift to his wife, Mary Tudor of England.
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Eventually he became court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Philip II, King of Spain.
More than 1, 000 guests gathered at Philip II's majestic El Escorial monastery for a nuptial mass conducted by Spain's cardinal-primate.
Philip II of Spain, then the monarch of the New World, was presented with this natural wonder of the Americas.
By Philip II, Spain had the makings of the first police state infused with the ill-gotten moral authority of a tyrannical clergy.
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Several studies aimed at repositioning Philip II in a more neutral and objective light have been published in the last few years.
Fernando Checa, a leading art historian and director of the Prado Museum in Madrid, recently published a study on Philip II as a Renaissance prince.
In 1214, Philip II of France beat an allied English, Flemish and German army under Otto IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, at the Battle of Bouvines.
In 1588, the Spanish Armada of about 125 ships sent by Philip II to try to invade England was defeated by an English fleet under Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake.
Another piece, a gold brooch set with an ancient gold coin that pictures Philip II of Macedonia, has patterns made of diamonds, blue topazes, amethysts, peridots, and pink and red tourmalines.
Some are distinguished by design or material, such as the nearly two pounds of solid gold that King Philip II of Spain attached to his profession of fealty to Pope Paul IV in 1555.
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And, although the Spanish empire was clearly not the power it had been in the 16th Century under Philip II, her monarchs continued expanding territorially until it reached its greatest extent at the end of the 18th Century.
Philip II had Sir Francis Drake.
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More than its blended iconography or august, prayerful figures, however, the painter's pictorial language defines El Greco's vision of heaven: The amorphous, billowing clouds, silvery palette and mannered, phantomlike personages who float in indeterminate space and time (including, prematurely, Spain's King Philip II) defy the laws and logic of material reality to conjure another realm.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were married in the same abbey in 1947.
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In 1700, Charles II of Spain died and was succeeded by Philip V, marking the start of the War of Spanish Succession.
Philip Milton and his brother, Alan, who run SageCrest II out of Greenwich, Conn.
He served as a government muralist prior to World War II and after the war fell in with the likes of Pollock and Philip Guston.
Maj Philip Malins, from Solihull in the West Midlands was held by the Japanese in Burma during World War II.
Queen Elizabeth II is the only British monarch to have celebrated a diamond wedding anniversary, having been married to Prince Philip since 1947.
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