Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive ; he was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.

Her execution also marked the end of the Howard family's power within the court.

Her prized possession was a bound volume of the Dissenters ' Theological Magazine and Review, in which the family's pastor, the Reverend James Wheaton, had published two essays, one insisting that God had created the world in six days, the other urging dissenters to study the new science of geology.

Her romance with a black doctor eventually leads to revelations about her family's past and her own mixed-race, European ancestry.

Her father, Robert Erhard ' Bob ' Duff, is a partner and owner in a chain of convenience stores with father John B. Duff and who resides at the family home in Houston to maintain the family's business.

Her grandmother traded one of the family's milk cows for a neighbor's piano, and seven-year-old Bobbie composed her first song, " My Dog Sergeant Is a Good Dog ".

Her closest companions are the family's African American maid, Berenice Sadie Brown, and her six-year-old cousin, John Henry West.

Her father died soon after the family's arrival in England, but Margaret continued to reside at the English court where her brother, Edgar Ætheling, was considered a possible successor to the English throne.

Her father's health had deteriorated severely due to jaw cancer, so she had to organize the family's emigration to London.

Her father died of leukemia when she was 13 and she helped her mother to raise her younger siblings, as well as to assist in the dressmaking business in order to meet the family's financial obligations.

Her family's legacy and her first-hand experience of the injustices suffered by women, combined with her strong belief that American citizens must ensure that the U. S. acts positively in the world, led Ms. Sharma to create the Women's Edge Coalition in 1998.

Her family's fortune had begun to decline due to the onset of post-World War I worker strikes in Britain and economic depression in Europe.

Her family's fortune spent, Geraldine earned a living as a shorthand typist.

Her family's poverty did not keep her from developing a love for nature and her country, as noted in her first work Río Grande de Loíza.

Her mother's Kempe relatives intervened to redeem the family's property.

Her family's ancestral home was in the Teng District ( 藤縣 ) in Guangxi province.

Her pledge to celibacy proved a hindrance to her family's political ambitions.

Her family's official web site claims that Carole was murdered.

Her autobiography tells not only about raising Nancy, whom she had at twenty and also describes Nancy as disturbed from a young age, but also her life following Nancy's murder in regard to her and her family's treatment by the judicial system and the press.

Her titles through marriage chart the Boleyn family's rise to power.

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Her death broke the spirit of his father, who yielded to hypochondria and alcoholism, contributing towards his loss of employment and the family's apartment, forcing authorities to board young Viktor out to a series of foster homes, one of which burnt down, further traumatizing the youth.

Her first husband, whom she married 10 May 1910 in Paris, was Jean Amédée Marie Anatole, Prince of Broglie ( born in Paris on 27 January 1886 ), whom she reportedly caught in bed with the family's chauffeur.

Her grandfather weaves tall tales about the family's evacuation from their home on the tiny island of Roan Inish and his great-great grandfather, who once cheated death at the hands of the sea.

Her frequent visits to the estate also allowed her to contrast the wealth in which the local landowner lived with the lives of the often much poorer people on the estate, and different lives lived in parallel would reappear in many of her works.

Her father grew angry as he wanted her to marry a person of power and wealth, not a healer.

Her father, the Duke of Teck, had no inheritance or wealth, and carried the lower royal style of Serene Highness because his parents ' marriage was morganatic.

Her wealth and persona also brought attention to women who were serving in government.

Her spirit of fortune made her a diety of greedy subjects who prayed to her for fortune and wealth and luck.

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 wealth enabled her to give financial support to struggling writers, including Joyce and Edith Sitwell.

Her father had a flourishing tea and grocery store and had accumulated considerable wealth.

Her clients were said to have been both men and women of wealth, and her career was financially lucrative.

Her only family were three semi-siblings brought up with endless wealth, now penniless and scrambling to earn a living, plus her 47-year-old cousin A.

Her combined estates in 1102-1110 nearly exceeded the wealth of the King of France at that time.

Her constant snobbery, boasting about wealth and connections she doesn't have, whilst repeatedly talking about her son Sheridan, all make Hyacinth disliked by almost everyone around her, including brother-in-law Onslow.

Her various epithets thus show a complex of mutually interrelated functions that in the view of G. Dumezil and V. Basanoff can be traced back to the Indoeuropean trifunctional ideology: as Regina and Moneta she is a sovereign deity, as Sespeis, Curitis ( spear holder ) and Moneta ( again ) she is an armed protectress, as Mater and Curitis ( again ) she is a goddess of the fertility and wealth of the community in her association with the curiae.

Her business enterprise proved immensely successful and later in life, she used her enormous wealth to support charitable institutions in the fields of education, art and health.

Her first two husbands used her great wealth to their advantage, especially the extremely abusive Count Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow, with whom she had her only child, a son named Lance.

Her husband, pointing out that she could have wished for immense wealth or food to last them a lifetime, becomes angry with her for making such a stupid wish and, not thinking, wishes the sausage were stuck on her nose.

Her wealth, as of 2011, was listed as US $ 1. 2 billion.

Her father was from a noble Polish family which had lost its wealth and property to the Russians, so he worked as a civil servant.

Her wealth is presented through her pearls and perfume and she takes care of her appearance, having smooth skin with fine lines, despite her age.

Her 2008 followup, Who Owns Canada Now: Old Money, New Money and The Future of Canadian Business showed that whilst much of the wealth covered in her earlier book had been inherited, 55 of the 75 wealthy families or individuals profiled were self-made.

Her proposition was that by cutting taxes and government benefits, the wealthy had benefited primarily at the cost of the less advantaged, including the middle class, whose real wages and wealth had barely grown during that period of time.

Her net wealth as mentioned in The One Hundred and One Dalmatians is £ 6 million.

Her book brought to light the moral injustices enacted upon the Native Americans as it chronicled the ruthlessness of white settlers in their greed for land, wealth, and power.

Her husband André slowly killed her by poisoning her drinks as she lay stricken in bed, in order to inherit her wealth and marry her beautiful younger sister for her dowry.