Queen Elizabeth II

By the end of June 1999 JKR was officially a millionaire. In the Sunday Times's annual Rich List she first appeared in 2001 as number 526 with a fortune of £65 million. She rose...

About this time she signalled her enjoyment of her new level of wealth by buying a racehorse (from that other racing enthusiast Queen Elizabeth ), registering her colours as an owner, and allowing this story...

Her first book about the Duchess of York, written while the Duchess was on tour in Australia, ended with the anxious moment of the reunion of the stranger mother with her toddler daughter the...

JM published a book about reporting from the Mount Everest expedition, titled Coronation Everest because its account of the conquest of the summit had reached London providentially on the eve [1 June 1953] of Queen Elizabeth

In spring 1953, amid public excitement over the forthcoming coronation of Queen Elizabeth II , a journalist acquaintance of DB , Kyle Crichton, suggested she should write an article of reminiscences about the coronation of...

VB published an account of the progress of women's struggle and status during the first half of the twentieth century: Lady into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II.

CD edited a poetry anthology, Jubilee Lines: 60 Poets for 60 Years, to mark Elizabeth II 's Diamond Jubilee.

ST published The Queen and I, a novel which was later produced as a play with music at the Haymarket, Leicester , on 23 March 1994. It led to a sequel, Queen Camilla, 2006.

Although not Poet Laureate, UAF was commissioned by the organisers of Bolton Festival to write a celebratory work for the eightieth birthday of Queen Elizabeth II . Its first performance, with music by composer Martin Lessons

She broadcast, too. For the US radio network of Mary Margaret McBride she described, live, the responses of the crowds in the streets at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth on 2 June 1953.

The Girl Guides (founded in 1910), having heard that AJ wrote plays about teenagers, commissioned her in 1960 to write a play for their fiftieth anniversary. It was meant to be performed by four hundred...

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...

VSW was one of those in the running for the position of Poet Laureate in succession to Robert Bridges in summer1929. She later secretly hoped to succeed Bridges' successor, John Masefield , and wrote a...