Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

Her maternal grandmother was the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her maternal grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium.

Her parents ' marriage had been arranged by Dangereuse with her paternal grandfather, the Troubadour.

Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green, that Helen's grandfather had built decades earlier.

Her grandfather, Motilal Nehru, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader.

Her grandfather, Russell Crawford Mitchell, of Atlanta, enlisted in the Confederate States Army in July 1861, and was later severely wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg.

Her maternal grandparents were of mixed European and Eastern Cherokee ancestry ; of particular importance to her as a child was her grandfather, Calvin Clinton Copeland, who was a great source of inspiration and guidance to her as a young child, offering a more pantheistic spiritual alternative to her father and paternal grandmother's traditional Christianity.

Her grandfather had been an organist at Westminster Abbey.

Her maternal grandfather was the Ban of Slavonia Count Herman II of Celje, whose parents were Count Herman I of Celje and Catherine of Bosnia, who apparently descended also from Nemanjić kings of Serbia and from Catherine of Hungary, a daughter of Stephen V of Hungary.

Her mother's maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant ; her mother's other ancestry is Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek.

Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.

Her son Vaballathus ( Latin from Aramaic, Wahballat " Gift of the Goddess ") inherited the name of Odaenathus ’ paternal grandfather.

Her paternal grandfather, Juan de Toledo, was a marrano ( Jewish convert to Christianity ) and was condemned by the Spanish Inquisition for allegedly returning to the Jewish faith.

Her paternal grandfather, John Claus Peters, was the son of German immigrants, Claus Peters and Caroline Catherine Eberlin.

Her father was a descendant of the Taliaferros of Virginia ; her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker and director of the American Hospital Association, was first married to Post Cereals ' heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.

Her curiosity was piqued because she actually had a grandfather whom her family had lost touch with, and whose initials matched those given in the email.

Her alcoholic grandfather physically abused her and Solanas ran away and became homeless.

Her mother's family had left Germany before World War II to avoid the Nazi regime ( Newton-John's maternal grandfather was Jewish, and her maternal grandmother was of paternal Jewish ancestry ).

Her maternal grandfather was David Greer, a RIC sergeant in Castlewellan, County Down, Ireland in the 1880s and who later became a land steward to the Annesley family ( wealthy landlords who built the town of Castlewellan ).

Her maternal grandfather was Zibeon the Hivite son of Seir the Horite.

Her grandfather was an immigrant from England in 1908.

Her grandfather was killed fighting against her uncle, Edward IV of England, at the Battle of Barnet.

Her grandfather had been born a slave and had experienced emancipation in the 1860s.

Her mother was Mary Cadwalader Rawle ( 1850 – 1923 ) whose maternal grandfather was John Cadwalader ( 1805 – 1879 ) and father was lawyer William Henry Rawle ( 1823 – 1889 ).

Her Journal reveals her growing sophistication as a critic as well as the influence of her father ’ s friend the artist Sir John Everett Millais who recognised Beatrix ’ s talent of observation.

Her stubbornness exasperated her interrogator, Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, who reported, " I do see it in her face that she is guilty ".

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Her work in Egyptology took place largely alongside her mentor and friend, the archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, whom she worked alongside at University College London.

Her father, Richard, was the younger brother of Sir Robert Bowes, a descendant of an old Durham family and her mother, Elizabeth, was an heiress of a Yorkshire family, the Askes of Richmondshire.

Her behaviour at Sir Pitt's house gains his favour, and after the premature death of his second wife, he proposes marriage to her.

The Department for Education and Skills since announced a review into early years reading, headed by Sir Jim Rose, formerly Her Majesty's Inspector and Director of Inspection for Ofsted ( Office for Standards in Education, UK.

Her first husband, Sir John Grey of Groby was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans.

Her husband had unsuccessfully approached several companies for help until he had a chance meeting with Sir Robert Robinson at a business dinner.

Her father's brother Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet was a British politician, and her first cousin once removed is British politician Tony Benn.

Her final stage performance came in 1966 when she played Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals at the Haymarket Theatre, alongside Sir Ralph Richardson.

Her first marriage, on 28 September 1933, was to Edward Alec Abbot Snelson ( 1904 – 1992 ), later Sir Edward, a British civil servant who became a noted judge and expert in Indian affairs.

Her predecessor, Sir Howard Davies stepped down after controversy regarding the School's links to the Libyan regime.

Her youngest son Geoffrey Pole also married well: to Catherine, daughter of Sir Edmund Pakenham, and inherited the estate of Lordington.

* Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, 11th Bt ( Chief of Clan Agnew, Her Majesty's Rothesay Herald of Arms ) ( born 1944 )

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Her paternal cousin was Sir Geoffrey de Havilland ( 1882 – 1965 ), an aircraft designer, notably of the De Havilland Mosquito, and founder of the aircraft company which bore his name.

Her experience and insight into many civil service tricks ensure a lasting mutual distrust between her and Sir Humphrey and provide an invaluable second opinion for Hacker.

Her council, particularly the man she trusts most Sir William Cecil, urges her to marry quickly, ( to ensure the succession, among other valid reasons ).

Her father Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, was a major British investor from the Pulteney Association who owned the land that became the town.

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.

In 2002, during the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II trailers for the Party at the Palace featured the Keeper of Her Majesty's Lawn Sprinklers, Sir Osmond Darling-Blackadder, who was against the idea.

Her firmest friend, however, was Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Thus, in the United Kingdom, The Princess Royal, is styled Her Royal Highness ( HRH ), her husband, Sir Timothy Laurence, bears no courtesy style merely by virtue of being her husband ( although his mother-in-law The Queen has since knighted him ).

Her nephew was Ulster Unionist Party MP Sir Walter Smiles, her great-niece being Patricia Ford, Lady Fisher, also a UUP MP.