Queen Elizabeth II

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

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...

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...

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.

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The unpublished writings of QV are in the Royal Archives at Windsor.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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.