Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

Summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age.

Beatrix ’ s father, Rupert William Potter ( 1832 – 1914 ), was educated in Manchester and trained as a barrister in London.

They lived comfortably at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, where Helen Beatrix was born on 28 July 1866 and her brother Walter Bertram on 14 March 1872.

Quite the contrary, Beatrix was devoted to the care of her small animals, often taking them with her on long holidays.

As a result, Beatrix came to meet Hardwicke Rawnsley, incumbent vicar at Wray and later the founding secretary of the National Trust, whose interest in the countryside and country life inspired the same in Beatrix and who was to have a lasting impact on her life.

Beatrix Potter was interested in every branch of natural science save astronomy.

By the summer of 1912 Heelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted, although she did not immediately tell her parents who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor.

Hill Top Farm was opened to the public by the National Trust in 1946 ; her artwork was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved to William Heelis ’ s former law offices in Hawkshead, also owned by the National Trust as the Beatrix Potter Gallery.

In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills.

Queen Beatrix, who had been rushed to safety with the rest of the royal family, returned once the situation was under control and the ceremony was continued.

This was achieved through the marriage of Albert III, Duke of Austria to Beatrix of Nuremberg.

In these adaptations, Elijah Baley was portrayed by Peter Cushing ( The Caves of Steel ) and Paul Maxwell ( The Naked Sun ), R. Daneel Olivaw by John Carson ( The Caves of Steel ) and David Collings ( The Naked Sun ), and Susan Calvin by Beatrix Lehmann (" The Prophet ") and Wendy Gifford (" Liar !").

Less than a year later, Emperor Francis married his cousin Maria Ludovika Beatrix of Austria-Este, who was four years older than Marie Louise.

Beatrix was the daughter of the sculptor John Birnie Philip and his wife Frances Black.

The fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and brother of Helen Lehmann, novelist Rosamond Lehmann and actress Beatrix Lehmann, he was educated at Eton and read English at Trinity College, Cambridge.

The eighth son and youngest child of George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan, and his first wife Lady Beatrix Jane Craven, he was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford where he read history.

Poet William Wordsworth was educated in its grammar school, whilst Beatrix Potter lived nearby, marrying William Heelis, a local solicitor in the early 20th century.

Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyer, the Director at Kew, because of her gender and her amateur status, Beatrix wrote up her conclusions and submitted a paper On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae to the Linnean Society in 1897.

Potter is also featured in a series of light mysteries called The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert.

The Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881 – 1897, transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder.

* 1997 – The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.

Anthropomorphized rabbits have appeared in a host of works of film, literature, and technology, notably the White Rabbit and the March Hare in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; in the popular novels Watership Down, by Richard Adams ( which has also been made into a movie ) and Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson, as well as in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit stories.

The headquarters were officially opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on 20 May 1998 and consist of an eight-story building built in a semi-circle.

* The Tailor of Gloucester, 1903 children's novel by Beatrix Potter

Dutch euro coins have two designs by Bruno Ninaber van Eyben, both of which feature a portrait or effigy of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

The so-called Gowrie conspiracy of 1600, in which the young Earl of Gowrie, John Ruthven, and his brother Alexander Ruthven were killed by James's attendants for a supposed assault on the King, triggered the dismissal of their sisters Beatrix and Barbara Ruthven as ladies-in-waiting to Anne, with whom they were " in chiefest credit.

The Fairy Caravan, a novel by Beatrix Potter, and Michael Bond's Olga da Polga series for children, both feature guinea pigs as the central protagonist.

Among foreign visitors welcomed by Sauvé were King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Hussein of Jordan, Pope John Paul II, Secretary-General of the United Nations Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, French president François Mitterrand, Chinese president Li Xiannian, Romanian president Nicolae Ceauşescu, Mother Teresa, and, eventually, President Reagan.

The Garland Farm was purchased by the Beatrix Farrand Society on January 9, 2004.

* The Last Garden of Beatrix Farrand by Patrick Chassé ( Maine Olmsted Alliance )

A similar effect occurs in the Knight of the Swan romance, in the Beatrix variants of the Swan-Children ; her taunt is punished by giving birth to seven children at once, and her wicked mother-in-law returns her taunt before exposing the children.

She became Queen of the Netherlands with her mother's abdication in 1948 and was succeeded by Queen Beatrix after her own abdication in 1980.

The second names of all three of their daughters are after Dutch queens: Beatrix for Amalia's grandmother, Queen Beatrix, Juliana for Alexia's great-grandmother, Queen Juliana and Wilhelmina for Ariane's great-great-grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina.

In the presence of HM Queen Beatrix in 2004 three bridges designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava were opened.

Gondomar was twice married, first to his niece Beatrix Sarmiento, by whom he had no children, and then to his cousin Constanza de Acuña, by whom he had four sons and three daughters.

In zebrafish, the orthologues of the three mammalian hh genes are: shh a, shh b, ( formerly described as tiggywinkle hedgehog named for Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a character from Beatrix Potter's books for children ), and indian hedgehog b ( formerly described as echidna hedgehog, named for the spiny anteater, though this may have also been a playful reference to Knuckles the Echidna, another character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games ).

Garden highlights include an 1890s-vintage, wrought-iron framed, " crystal-palace style " greenhouse by Lord & Burnham, now Haupt Conservatory ; the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden ( originally laid out by Beatrix Jones Farrand in 1916 ); a rock garden ; a conifer collection ; extensive research facilities including a propagation center, 550, 000-volume library, and an herbarium of over seven million botanical specimens dating back more than three centuries.

They had a son, Cecil Vavasseur, 2nd Baron Fisher ( 1868 – 1955 ), and three daughters, Beatrix Alice ( 1867 – 1930 ), Dorothy Sybil ( 1873 – 1962 ) and Pamela Mary ( 1876 – 1949 ), who all married naval officers.

She was played by three separate actresses in British television, beginning in 1962 with Maxine Audley in an adaption of " Little Lost Robot " for the TV series Out of This World, then later played by Beatrix Lehmann in the 1967 " The Prophet ", and followed by Wendy Gifford in 1969's " Liar!

The Royal Palace in Amsterdam ( or ) is one of three palaces in the Netherlands which is at the disposal of Queen Beatrix by Act of Parliament.

They have five children: three boys, Geronimo and twins Artemis and Galileo, and daughters Sable and Beatrix.

The couple had three daughters ; Margaret, Beatrix, and Elizabeth.

In November 1960 Christian Heinrich, being the divorced father of three daughters by his dynastic marriage to Beatrix Grafin von Bismarck-Schönhausen ( 1921-2006 ), married Dagmar Prinzessin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein ( 1919-2002 ), elder daughter of his adopted father's younger brother, Georg, who died seven months before the wedding.