Her godparents included her great-aunt the Countess of Devon, Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey, and the Duchess of Norfolk.

* The Broadway plays, musicals, and movies based upon the book Gigi are about a young Parisian girl who is being trained to be a courtesan by her great-aunt, a retired career courtesan herself.

Her godparents were: the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle, for whom his brother the Prince George stood proxy ); Princess Ingrid of Sweden ( her paternal cousin, for whom another cousin Lady Patricia Ramsay stood proxy ); the Princess Victoria ( her paternal great-aunt ); the Lady Rose Leveson-Gower ( her maternal aunt ); and the Hon David Bowes-Lyon ( her maternal uncle ).

Catherine would be the only female from the Parr family, apart from her great-aunt, Mabel, to marry into the peerage.

By her father, the Duchess of York was Anne's great-aunt.

Isis also learns the history of her grandfather, and rescues her great-aunt Zhobelia from an old people's home.

Returning with her great-aunt Zhobelia, her cousin Morag, enhanced maturity and a lot more information, Isis must decide what to tell the other members of the cult.

Adélaïde went to live with her great-aunt the Princess of Conti at Fribourg, then to Bavaria and Hungary and, finally, to her mother who was exiled in Spain.

Jane is a young woman from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, whose father Steve is a retired Mountie ; her mother Ann is a journalist, and she has two older sisters ( all back in Canada ) and a great-aunt Grace who lives near London.

Sibylla was being raised by her great-aunt Ioveta in the convent of Bethany, while Isabella was at the court of her mother, the dowager queen Maria Comnena, in Nablus.

Killing her great-aunt before the legislation came in allowed the niece to secure the fortune intended for her.

His godparents were Queen Victoria ( his paternal grandmother ), King Christian IX of Denmark ( his maternal grandfather, represented by his brother Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ), King Leopold I of Belgium ( his great great-uncle ), the Dowager Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ( his maternal great-grandmother, for whom the Duchess of Cambridge stood proxy ), the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( his great-aunt by marriage, for whom the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz stood proxy ), the Landgrave of Hesse ( his maternal great-grandfather, for whom Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, stood proxy ), the Crown Princess of Prussia ( his paternal aunt, for whom The Princess Helena, her sister, stood proxy ) and The Prince Alfred ( his paternal uncle ).

Queen Victoria's firstborn child, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, took her second name from her great-aunt.

He was overthrown by his great-aunt and her husband, after which he was presumably murdered.

On Sunday, 27 October 1912, the 18-year-old Kiyoaki and Honda are talking on an island in the ornamental lake on the estate when they see Kiyoaki's mother, her maids, and two guests: Satoko Ayakura, the 20-year-old daughter of a count, and her great-aunt, the Abbess of Gesshu.

Born in Stoke Newington as Douglas Woods to a single mother, Buster was adopted and brought up by his great-aunt Mary Trendle and her husband, Edward.

Paul de Lagarde was born in Berlin as Paul Bötticher ; in early adulthood he legally adopted the family name of his maternal line out of respect for his great-aunt who raised him.

Sibylla was raised by her great-aunt, the Abbess Ioveta of Bethany, sister of former Queen Melisende of Jerusalem, who founded the convent of St. Lazarus in Bethany for her sister in 1128, and died there in 1163.

Growing up in the rural region of Nara, Kawase's parents split early on in her childhood leaving her to be raised by her great-aunt, with whom she held a combative, yet loving, relationship.

Baldwin IV was raised by William of Tyre at court, and Sibylla was raised by her great-aunt Ioveta of Bethany at the convent of St. Lazarus.

Initially raised by his grandparents, Kenan soon went to live with a great-aunt in Chinquapin, North Carolina, a rural community of fewer than a thousand people.

After leaving he undertook a Grand Tour of Europe, financed by his great-aunt ( who offered him £ 500 to not go to university, which she regarded as a den of vice ) and his father.

Opie takes an instant dislike to his great-aunt but revises his thinking at episode's end when he realizes Aunt Bee needs him to teach her how to do important things, such as playing baseball and catching fish.

Alexander's maternal great-aunt was empress Julia Domna ( also Maesa's younger sister ) and his great-uncle in marriage was emperor Lucius Septimius Severus.

She was from a prosperous business family that later founded the company Philips Electronics: she was great-aunt to Anton and Gerard Philips, and great-great-aunt to Frits Philips.

In June the Haute Cour granted the regency to Alice of Champagne, who, as the daughter of Isabella I, was Conrad's great-aunt and his closest relative living in the kingdom.

Catherine's great-aunt, Agnes Parr, married Sir Thomas Strickland, son of Sir Walter and Douce Crofte.

They moved to the eastern suburbs, which were controlled by de Montfort's great-aunt, Margaret, Countess of Winchester.

The Duke of York's wife, Cecily, was a great-aunt to Anne and Isabella.

He inherited £ 8, 000 (£ as of ), from his paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton ( daughter of the abolitionist Henry Thornton ), who died on 5 November 1887.

It is perhaps notable that Galadriel, the last of the House of Finwë in Middle-earth ( other than the Half-elven ) and Gil-galad's great-aunt, likewise never claimed a king title let alone the title of High Queen.

The woman usually called Antonia the Younger was the younger niece of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, paternal grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, mother of the Emperor Claudius, and both maternal great-grandmother and paternal great-aunt of the Emperor Nero.

She was additionally the maternal great-aunt of the Empress Valeria Messalina and Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix, and paternal grandmother of Claudia Antonia, Claudia Octavia, and Britannicus.

Antonia was the grandmother of the Emperor Caligula, the Empress Agrippina the Younger and through Agrippina, great-grandmother and great-aunt of the Emperor Nero.

She was a niece of the Emperor Augustus, step cousin of the Emperor Tiberius, paternal great-aunt of the Emperor Caligula, maternal aunt and great-aunt-in law of the Emperor Claudius, and paternal grandmother and maternal great-great aunt of the Emperor Nero.

* Lula Wardlow, a Methodist minister and denominational leader, served as mayor from 1926 – 1930 ; great-aunt of Steve Gunn.

Baldwin's mother's mother was great-aunt of Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem and the Counts of Flanders had tried to help Jerusalem relatives in their struggle.

During his holidays, Merton stayed at his great-aunt and uncle's home, where occasionally his father would visit.

The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

I bent and kissed the still pink neck and suddenly she jumped up, and her two arms encircled me in a bear-like crush.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

A young woman who looked like Alix, with her two children.

He spent concentrated weeks putting his two figures together: a Mary who would be young and sensitive, yet strong enough to hold her son on her lap ; ;

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

Both of them had known the feeling of the small life in her waiting, ready, for the two of them to run up her sails.

Her eyebrows were definite and heavy and formed two lines moving upward toward a high forehead and a great head of brown hair that fell to her shoulders.

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

They stopped expecting her to die the next minute, but only in the next day or two.

She was wearing her dark hair in two, thick braids to attain an `` American Girl '' effect she thought was appropriate to Halloween.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.