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, a distinguished lady at the court, was reputed to be a lesbian and witch.

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, 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 basic hull form ( a teardrop ) and her nuclear power plant will be used for almost all new submarines, including the potent Polaris missile submarines '', the statement went on.

" The review went on to state that " The heart of the production, in both senses, is Judi Dench's superb Desiree Armfeldt ... Her husky-voiced rendering of " Send in the Clowns " is the most moving I've ever heard.

Her first country single, " Dumb Blonde " ( one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write ), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen.

Her charity work includes participation with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, in which she helped design and promote a necklace, for which all proceeds from sales went to the Glaser foundation.

Her mother, Anne ( Purcell ) Higgins, was a devout Catholic who went through 18 pregnancies ( with 11 live births ) in 22 years before dying at age 50 of tuberculosis and cervical cancer.

Her first single, " Cuff Links and a Tie Clip ", went unnoticed.

Her mother was also named Marie-Madeline, and this plethora of " Maries " may have been the reason she went by Sophie.

Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a were ordered to pay fourpence a day towards the upkeep for the King's polar bear ; the bear attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames.

Her mother Ceres, also known as Demeter, the goddess of agriculture or of the Earth, went looking for her in vain to every corner of the earth, but was not able to find anything but a small belt that was floating upon a little lake ( made with the tears of the nymphs ).

" Her foundation went into various underdeveloped villages and gave away brand new clothes to needy children and their families in June 2004.

Her extraordinary talent was discovered when Miranda was first introduced to composer Josué de Barros, who went on to promote and record her first album with a Brunswick, a German recording company in 1929.

Her risqué routines captivated Paris, and she went on to become the most popular French entertainer of her time and the highest paid female entertainer in the world, known for her flamboyance and a zest for the theatrical.

Her career went through several periods of eclipse, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships.

Her brother, the Duke of Clarence, had been executed by Edward IV in 1478 ; Edward himself had died of illness in 1483 and finally, her younger brother Richard, who took the throne as Richard III was in 1485 killed at the Battle of Bosworth by the leader of the House of Lancaster, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, a cousin and nephew of Henry VI, who went on to become Henry VII, and to marry the daughter of Edward IV, Elizabeth of York.

Her main argument was that sex and domestic economics went hand in hand ; in order for a woman to survive she was reliant on her sexual assets to please her husband so that he would bring home the bread.

Her husband, who for most of the past 11 years has devoted as much time to the restaurant as she, recently went into the mobile home service business.

Her husband went missing in action on 30 November 1941, on his way back from a bombing raid over Nazi Germany.

Her public appearances beside her husband as First Lady were a novelty at home and went a long way in humanizing the country's image.

Her fourth solo LP, Just for You, went gold and was nominated for the 1995 Grammy Award for Best R & B Album.

Her 1961 rockabilly release " Let's Jump the Broomstick ", recorded in 1959, did not chart in the US, but went to No. 12 in the UK.

Her reputation soon reached back to London, where for a time, she went to work making or decorating fabrics, clothes, murals, furniture, and rugs at the Omega Workshops, which was directed by Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant .< ref >

Her hair was brown, but she bleached it when she went to New York.

She then went on tour with Her Cardboard Lover for several months.

Her affair went " ery deep, hittin ' on all the emotions.

Her album, Don't Come Home A-Drinkin, went to number one and became one of the first albums by a female country artist to reach sales of 500, 000 copies.