In the sixteenth century, Diana's image figured prominently at the châteaus of Fontainebleau, Chenonceau, & at Anet, in deference to Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri of France.

* 1499 – Diane de Poitiers, French mistress of Henry II of France ( d. 1566 )

* April 25 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France ( b. 1499 )

* July 23 – Louis de Brézé, seigneur d ' Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers

* January 11 – Diane de France, Duchess of Angouleme ( b. 1538 )

* Diane de Poitiers ( 1499 – 1566 ): official mistress of King Henry II of France

The term has also been applied to influential women like Anne Boleyn, Madaline Bishop, Diane de Poitiers, Mathilde Kschessinska, Pamela Harriman, Eva Perón and Gabrielle " Coco " Chanel.

** Diane de France, illegitimate daughter of Henry II of France ( d. 1619 )

* September 3 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France ( d. 1566 )

Throughout his reign, Henry excluded Catherine from participating in state affairs and instead showered favours on his chief mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who wielded much influence over him.

In 1538, at the age of nineteen, Henry had taken as his mistress the thirty-eight year old Diane de Poitiers, whom he adored for the rest of his life.

Henry gave the Château of Chenonceau, which Catherine had wanted for herself, to Diane de Poitiers, who took her place at the centre of power, dispensing patronage and accepting favours.

One of her first acts was to force Diane de Poitiers to hand over the crown jewels and return the Château de Chenonceau to the crown.

His five opponents included winners of major races including Blakeney ( 1969 Epsom Derby ), Karabas ( Washington, D. C. International Stakes ), Crepellana ( Prix de Diane ) and Caliban ( Coronation Cup ).

Diane de Poitiers, another favorite of the previous king, was also asked to not appear at the court ; her protege, Jean Bertrand, had to surrender his title, Keeper of the Seals of France, to the chancellor François Olivier that Diane removed from this function a few years earlier.

The other two French Classic Races are Prix du Jockey Club ( the French Derby ) and the Prix de Diane both held in June at Chantilly Racecourse.

The following year, he became romantically involved with a thirty-five-year-old widow, Diane de Poitiers.

As Henry lay dying, Queen Catherine limited access to his bedside and denied his mistress Diane de Poitiers access to him, even though he repeatedly asked for her.

Image: French bastard culverin 1548 with arms of Henri II and Catherine de Medicis and crescent of Diane 85mm 300cm 1076kg. jpg |" Bastard culverin " of 1548, with arms of Henri II and Catherine de Medicis and crescent of Diane de Poitiers.

To the Fontainebleau of François I and Henry II, King Henry IV added the court that carries his name, the Cour des Princes, with the adjoining Galerie de Diane de Poitiers and the Galerie des Cerfs, used as a library.

Lost to the Crown because of fraud to the State, it was donated by King Henri II to his mistress Diane de Poitiers.

In 1535 the château was seized from Bohier's son by King Francis I of France for unpaid debts to the Crown ; after Francis ' death in 1547, Henry II offered the château as a gift to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who became fervently attached to the château along the river.

Diane de Poitiers was the unquestioned mistress of the castle, but ownership remained with the crown until 1555, when years of delicate legal maneuvers finally yielded possession to her.

However, to show his love for Diane de Poitiers, Henry had the ceiling created to look like a " D " and an " H ".

Bedroom of Diane de Poitiers.

The room used by Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II, has a fireplace by Jean Goujon, a French sculptor of the Fontainebleau School, which bears the initials of Henry II and Catherine de ' Medici: interlaced Hs and Cs that could be considered as forming the D of " Diane ".

Diane Dodd was also able to show how reproductive isolation can develop from mating preferences in Drosophila pseudoobscura fruit flies after only eight generations using different food types, starch and maltose.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

The second single, the Diane Warren penned " Wherever Would I Be ," suffered a worse fate reaching only No. 50.

Her only film appearance that year, Milder has a small role in Diane English's comedy film The Women, starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening and Eva Mendes among others.

The Bell & Howell camera was incapable of double-system recording, and thus all sound effects and dialogue were dubbed later in post-production, done by only three or four people, including Warren, Neyman, and Diane Mahree.

( The Bachelors had topped the Record Retailer chart in 1964 with " Diane ", but only reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart ).

Cregg, Condoleezza Rice, Dido, Dr Tanya Byron, Julia Thorne, Diane Sawyer, Clarice Starling ( on radio ), Trisha Goddard, Marge Simpson ( on radio ), Peggy Mitchell, Pat Evans, Victoria " Nana " Moon, Kat Moon, Sophie Neveu, Katie Melua, Rose Tyler, Jennifer Aniston, Bree Hodge, Nicky Hambleton-Jones, Beyoncé Knowles, Jessica Fletcher, Mariella Frostrup, Jane Fonda, June Whitfield, Helen Mirren, Gwen Cooper, Renée Zellweger & Beatrix Potter, Lily Allen, Kerry Katona, Jenny Eclair, Katie Price, Chloe O ' Brian ( voice only ), Victoria Wood

Receiving a " clean bill of health ", Jackson followed up the cancelled Scarecrow and Mrs. King by taking on the main role in Baby Boom, a 1988 TV sitcom version of the original movie starring Diane Keaton, but it lasted only one season.

By comparison, since Diane Crump rode in the 1970 Kentucky Derby only 6 different women have competed in 15 total US Triple Crown events with a combined record of 1 win, 1 place, 0 shows.

George was Diane Chambers's first customer, appeared at the end of this episode, could not bear her long explanation of becoming a waitress, and had only one line consisting of only one word: " Beer!

They are both killed and replaced for the first series by Laura Dickens ( Diane Keen ), the only female Sandbagger, killed at the end of the first series.

Diane Cowan, a lobster scientist and founder of the Lobster Conservancy in Friendship stated only albino lobsters are rarer, and orange lobsters such as these are a 1 in 30 million catch.

In 2006, Shays was in " the fight of his political life ", facing a strong challenge for re-election from former Westport First Selectwoman Diane Farrell, who had held him to only 52 percent of the vote in 2004.

By winning the seat in 1997, King became only the second black woman to be elected as Member of Parliament, the first being Diane Abbott.

George was Diane Chambers's first customer, had only one line consisting of only one word, " Beer!

It was written by a Malibu waitress named Diane Thomas in what would end up being her only screenplay ; she died in a car crash shortly after the film's release.

It was second and final Carry On film for Windsor Davies, Diane Langton, and Peter Jones, while Patrick Mower, Judy Geeson and Melvyn Hayes make their only Carry On appearance.

Most prominent of the females is Private Alice Easy ( Diane Langton ) who tries to charm her new commanding officer but only succeeds in propelling her top button into his system!

In the 1995 Judge Dredd film Hershey played by Diane Lane, she is portrayed as a newly graduated Judge who has been a Street Judge for only a year and is shown to be more sympathetic to perps than Dredd ( Sylvester Stallone ), and also in contrast to Dredd she has a personal life and friends.

Cousins promises to show Jeff what happened to Diane, but only if he agrees to go through exactly the same thing she did.

( Film co-star Diane Ladd joined Alice mid-series playing a different character, and Alfred Lutter reprised his film role as Tommy for the pilot episode only.

Diane became of favourite of Henry III, King of France, who made her Duchess of Angoulême in appanage ( during her lifetime only ) during 1582.