Queen Elizabeth II

The unpublished writings of QV are in the Royal Archives at Windsor.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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

In 1966 SS received the Cholmondeley Award. Three years later came the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. She wrote of her twenty minutes with the queen : You feel you're with an enormously charming...

ES was awarded a DBE by the Queen ; she was the first poet to receive this accolade.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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