Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

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 ).

Her half-brother the artist and writer Quentin Bell eventually became the club ’ s secretary, and later wrote his aunt ’ s biography.

" Her aunt responds, " That may be, maybe not, but after the operation who would believe her, Doctor?

Her romantic attachment to Kenneth Wayne is opposed by her adopted father John Carteret, who bears the painful memory of his thwarted love for her aunt, Moonyean Clare.

Her aunt asks her how she can be so cruel, and she responds, " I have been taught by masters.

Her father and aunt resent Belinda because her mother died giving birth to her.

Her aunt Helen Carolin Franklin was married to Norman de Mattos Bentwich, who was the Attorney General in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Her aunt told her to go to Constantinople to " ask for justice from the Emperor ", that she would receive her fair share of her father's wealth.

Her maternal aunt became her guardian and took Fanny to her home in England.

Her aunt, Tina Hutchence, the sister of INXS singer Michael Hutchence, was denied permission by the judge to apply for Tiger Lily to live with her in California.

Her godparents were: Queen Victoria ( her great-grandmother ); the King of Greece ( her granduncle ); the Dowager Empress of Russia ( her paternal grandaunt ); the Prince and Princess of Wales ( her paternal grandparents ); the Duchess of Teck ( her maternal grandmother ); Princess Victoria of Wales ( her paternal aunt ); and Prince Francis of Teck ( her maternal uncle ).

Her grandfather was a Christian missionary in Africa, while her aunt and uncle were missionaries in India and now head the Arab World Missions.

Her father, William Graham, was Scottish and her mother, Susan, was Cornish and had arranged for a wealthy aunt in Cornwall to pay for her children's education.

Her father, devastated by his wife's disappearance and convinced he murdered her, sent Gwenda to New Zealand to be raised by an aunt and died soon afterward in an asylum.

Her aunt, Helen Suzman, was appointed Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1989 for her anti-apartheid activism.

: Her aunt went off to the theatre

Her aunt, Karen Banfield Evans, is the foundation's executive director.

Her family includes Doc Platter ( father ), Maddy Platter ( mother ), Luanne Platter ( niece ), Hoyt Platter ( older brother ), Laverne Platter ( aunt ), Boffo Platter ( uncle ), Hank Hill ( husband ), Bobby Hill ( son ), Elroy " Lucky " Kleinschmidt ( nephew-in-law ), and Gracie Margaret Kleinschmidt ( grand-niece ).

Her godparents were: Queen Victoria ( her paternal grandmother ); the German Empress ( for whom Alice's paternal aunt Princess Beatrice stood proxy ); William III, King of the Netherlands ( for whom the Dutch Ambassador Count de Bylandt stood proxy ); Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse ( her namesake's widower, whose brother-in-law the Duke of Edinburgh represented him ); the Princess of Waldeck-Pyrmont ( her maternal grandmother ); the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle ); the German Crown Princess ( her paternal aunt, whose sister-in-law the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg ( her cousin, for whom his cousin the Duke of Teck stood proxy ); the Hereditary Princess of Bentheim and Steinfurt ( her maternal aunt, for whom her paternal aunt Princess Christian stood proxy ); and the Duchess of Cambridge ( an aunt of the Queen, whose daughter the Duchess of Teck represented her ).

Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.

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 apparent distant cousin ( and seducer ) Alec D ' Urberville proved to be a member of a nouveau-riche 19th-century family that had merely adopted the surname of Stoke-D ' Urberville in the hope of sounding more distinguished.

Her most distinguished work in Hollywood is in Wild is the Wind, according to Wood.

Her husband James had a very distinguished political career.

Her career and fame peaked with her 11 June 1877 marriage to Sir William Francis Butler ( 1838 – 1910 ), a distinguished officer of the British Army, from Tipperary in Ireland.

Her father was from a distinguished family in New Jersey: his father Richard Howell served several terms as Governor of New Jersey and died when William was a boy.

Her father went on to a distinguished scientific career, heading the British hydrogen bomb programme.

Her distinguished conductors and musical arrangers through the years included Frank DeVol, Russell Garcia, Johnny Mandel, Billy May, Marty Paich, Nelson Riddle, Pete Rugolo, and Paul Weston.

Her cap may be gray, but many females have black caps, and cannot be reliably distinguished from the male in the field.

Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished western luminaries, including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Rilke.

Her writing career has been distinguished by family saga-type novels which describe the lives of related characters for long periods of time.

Her mother came of a Prussian family and had two distinguished uncles, historian Georg Heinrich Pertz and the Swedenborgian writer James John Garth Wilkinson.

Her grandfather Feroze Gandhi was a parliamentarian and her great-great-grandfather, Motilal Nehru, was a distinguished leader in the Indian Independence Movement

Her husband, Edward Garnett, whom she married in Brighton on 31 August 1889, was a distinguished reader for the publisher Jonathan Cape.

Her grandfather was the distinguished Salem shipowner, Joseph Peabody, who made a fortune importing pepper from Sumatra and was one of the wealthiest men in the United States at the time of his death in 1844.

Her ambition to deal with the highest things was further evinced by her undertaking at different times the translation of the two contemporary continental books most famous at the moment — Strauss's ' The Old Faith and the New ' ( 1873 and 1874 ) and ' The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseft ' ( 1890 ); also by writing for the ' Eminent Women Series ' the lives of two of the most distinguished among women — George Eliot ( 1883 ; new edit.

Her father was Dr. Samuel Cabot III, a distinguished surgeon.

Her son Bernard became a distinguished Senior Counsel.

Her legal career began as a law clerk in the fledgling NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF ), where she worked with a distinguished group of civil rights attorneys, among them future U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, prominent Jewish-American civil-rights advocate Jack Greenberg, and many others.

Her brother Léon was an eminent oboist and her sister Marie was also a distinguished harpist.

) Her elder sister Dame Miriam Rothschild was a distinguished scientist and zoologist.

Her earliest roles were minor, but her activity and gradual success helped to establish her as a distinguished Egyptian actress.

Her father was the distinguished Spanish diplomat and scholar Salvador de Madariaga.