Her symbolic role in this unique mission to the Spanish Court was intended to emphasize the international links which were forged by her 16th-century ancestor, Ieyasu Tokugawa.

Her grandmother Lingeer Fatim Beye is the matriach and early ancestor of this dynasty.

Her sister Eleanor ferch Thomas was the ancestor of the Newport family and the Earl of Bradford and the Lingen family and Baron Lingen of Lingen.

Her last purely Swedish ancestor was her great-grandfather, a descendant of Leonard Gyllenhaal, a leading Swedenborgian who supported the printing and spreading of Swedenborg's writings.

Her granddaughter Joan was the mother of Sir William Gascoigne ( c. 1450 – 1486 ) who married Margaret Percy and became ancestor of many notable persons including Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, George Washington and William Howard Taft ( see entry on Margaret Percy for further details ).

Her youngest son became the ancestor of the later Borjigid.

Her son Bramwell was the protagonist dealing with a curse placed upon the family by their ancestor Brutus Collins.

Her most famous ancestor was Ann Cooper Whitall.

Her father, Nikolai Romanovich Gippius, a German-Russian, whose ancestor Adolphus von Gingst, later von Hippius, came to Moscow in the 16th century.

Her ancestor Zuhrah was the elder brother of Qusayy ibn Kilab, who was also an ancestor of ' Abd Allah ibn Abd al Muttalib.

Her Imperial titles of Princess of the Holy Roman Empire did not pass to her children or to her heir, Charles Spencer ( patrilineal ancestor of the current Dukes of Marlborough as well as mixed-line ancestor of the Earls Spencer, blood family of Diana, Princess of Wales ) as the Empire operated Salic Law which prevented female succession.

Her parents, Samuel Elijah Eastman and Annis Bertha Ford, were both Congregational Church clergy, and together served as pastors at the church of Thomas K. Beecher near Elmira, New York.

Her name is an anagram of Grundy ( from Mrs. Grundy, a character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough ).

Her father Thomas refused marriage because of Stephenson's lowly status as a miner.

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

Image: Thomas Gainsboroguh Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire 1783. jpg | Her Grace Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( 1783 ), National Gallery of Art

Image: Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish. jpg | Her Grace Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, ( 1787 )

Lansky's 1979 computer music piece " Her Song ", from the Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion ( re-released on the album Fantasies and Tableaux, 1994 ), has also been sampled by Caural for his song " I Won't Race You ", from his 2006 album Mirrors For Eyes, with the main synthesized vocal line of Lansky's piece being used ( and being the basis for the title of the latter ).

Her son Thomas McKay became McLoughlin's stepson.

Her father's ancestry was more distinguished than that of Thomas Boleyn and John Seymour and Catherine's lineage, unlike that of Henry's wife, Anne Boleyn, was better and more established at Court.

Her pacifism was influenced by the writings of Immanuel Kant, Henry Thomas Buckle, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin and Leo Tolstoy ( Tolstoy praised Die Waffen nieder!

Her second husband Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere, an eminent lawyer and Lord Chancellor of England, had died in 1617.

Her husband Dr Thomas Edwards, took the initiative in buying extra land to make an access from Brixton Hill in 1814 and laying out two new roads Lower Tulse Hill Road ( now known simply as Tulse Hill ) and Upper Tulse Hill Road ( now Upper Tulse Hill ) before 1821.

He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1869, and on the resignation of Sir Thomas Maclear in 1870 he was appointed Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.

Her revue, with future TV pioneer Danny Thomas as her opening act, included songs from her films, performances on her musical saw ( a skill she had originally acquired for stage appearances in Berlin in the 1920s ), and a pretend " mindreading " act.

Lowery said in an interview that " All Her Favorite Fruit " was based on the romance between Jessica Swanlake and Roger Mexico from the Thomas Pynchon novel Gravity's Rainbow.

Her capacity for projecting pathos was an inspiration to playwrights Thomas Otway and Thomas Southerne in the three famous tragic roles they wrote for her: Monimia in Otway's The Orphan ( 1680 ), Belvidera in Otway's Venice Preserved ( 1682 ), and Isabella in Southerne's The Fatal Marriage ( 1694 ).

Her portrait was painted twice by the noted American artist Thomas Sully.

Her second season in London included performances in the roles of Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas ' Hamlet and the Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

Her uncle was the poet Matthew Arnold and her grandfather Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School.

Her sister Julia married Leonard Huxley, the son of Thomas Huxley, and their sons were Julian and Aldous Huxley.

Her brother, General Sir Thomas Cobley, was renowned for his part in the siege of Ismail.

Her close friends, Mary Shelton and the Duchess of Richmond, were the main contributors, as well as Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Thomas Wyatt.

Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

Her first starring role at the studio, in the title role as Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), revived her career and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress.

Her siblings include Martha Pierce Rafferty ( 1920 – 1999 ); James Pierce ( 1921 – 1993 ), and Scott Pierce ( born 1930 ).

* Tokyo Rose: They Called Her a Traitor article by J. Kingston Pierce

Her film work after ER included Evelyn with Pierce Brosnan and Ghost Ship with Gabriel Byrne and Ron Eldard.

Her son Finn William Leeves Coben, was born on December 19, 2003, and both David Hyde Pierce and John Mahoney are his godfathers.

Her final Bond film was also Moore's last outing, and she was succeeded by Caroline Bliss during the Timothy Dalton era and later by Samantha Bond in the Pierce Brosnan films.

Her second husband was screenwriter Ranald MacDougall, who numbered Mildred Pierce and Cleopatra among his credits, and who served as President of the Writers Guild of America in the early 1970s.

Her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her portrait was painted by Anthony van Dyck and Henry Pierce Bone.

Her district was entirely within Clermont County, containing Miami Township as well as Batavia, Goshen, Pierce, Stonelick and Union Townships, plus the cities of Amelia, Batavia and Milford, and the Clermont County part of the city of Loveland.