Queen Elizabeth II

Her mother was still in hospital when Queen Elizabeth was crowned, and held her baby up to the window to see the great / procession, so she said.

Later relations of MEBCS include Queen Elizabeth II (through her mother , who was born a Bowes-Lyon) and John Bowes , the Victorian illegitimate son who built and endowed the splendid Bowes Museum in County Durham.

DDM 's husband was known as Boy in his regiment. He was also esteemed as a war hero and an Olympic athlete. Initially, DDM was very much in love with him. However, they grew apart...

ASB says that this book and its three successors are about the desirability of an androgynous mind. After opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the story is set in Yorkshire (though...

Tremain's butler, Jack Sadler, has been left by his employers the great house (modelled on RT 's mother's ancestral home, Linkenholt Manor in Hampshire, in which he served them during his working career. He...

Her first season involved not only being formally presented to the queen , much formal dressing and a round of lunches and dances, but also her own coming-out ball. For this her parents provided a...

While studying and writing for the student newspaper, Cherwell, Morris also established contact with The Times, then took a job as a sub-editor and junior leader-writer, then as foreign correspondent with the newspaper...

AU rewrote it for eventual publication by Collins . She sent a set of the Little Grey Rabbit books as a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth in 1947 (and had, she said, a charming thank-you...

The unpublished writings of QV are in the Royal Archives at Windsor. The entire text of her journals has been posted online, open access, at www.queenvictoriasjournals.org, with a foreword by Queen Elizabeth II

DB 's article The King is Crowned, solicited by the New Yorker's Kyle Crichton , reached print in time for Queen Elizabeth II 's coronation.

This was still Smith's latest novel, however, when in 2004 she was honoured in connection with both her race and her gender: nominated for the list of A Hundred Great Black Britons and invited to...

FB never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan 's...

In May 2011 EOB was one of fifteen Irish people chosen by the President of Ireland to attend a lunch with Queen Elizabeth of Britain. This historic occasion was the first visit by a reigning...

RP received more recognition during her lifetime from the bestowers of literary awards and from fellow-writers than from the critics. In 1955 she became the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry...

After Ted Hughes died on 28 October 1998, FA 's name was put forward as Poet Laureate. This honour went, however, to Andrew Motion . Adcock had already won the Cholmondeley Award in 1976, received...