Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

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

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 daughter Imogen has been quoted as saying " The truth is Enid Blyton was arrogant, insecure, pretentious, very skilled at putting difficult or unpleasant things out of her mind, and without a trace of maternal instinct.

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Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from England.

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

Her Iowa-born maternal grandmother, Dorothy ( Anderson ) Fries, was a voice coach.

Her children included the Princes in the Tower and Elizabeth of York ; the latter made her the maternal grandmother of Henry VIII.

Her maternal grandparents were Malcolm III of Scotland and Saint Margaret of Scotland.

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 great-grandfather was jurist Victor Ehrenberg and her matrilineal great-grandmother's father was German jurist Rudolf von Jhering.

Her maternal Polish Catholic grandparents were imprisoned at Auschwitz because they were considered to be intellectuals by the Nazi occupiers.

Her maternal grandparents were Millicent Green, a dancer with the George White's Scandals, a series of 1920s musical revues similar to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Johnny McAfee, a multireedist and vocalist of the big band era ; her grandparents met while touring with Johnny Hamp and his orchestra.

Her maternal grandmother was Lettice Knollys.

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 paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants and two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish.

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

Her mother had done it before her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers.

Her grandmother, on the other hand, provided day-to-day supervision and kindly discipline.

Her paternal grandmother Elisabeth of Kujavia was the daughter of King Władysław I the Elbow-high, who had reunited Poland in 1320.

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

Her daughter Elizabeth was the " Winter Queen " of Bohemia and the grandmother of King George I of Great Britain.

On " The Mook, the Chef, the Wife, and Her Homer ", it is revealed that Hans Moleman slept with Lars Ulrich's grandmother, and is considered by Metallica to be a " real fan ".

There he renamed Zennia Boulevard ( also known as Cohune Walk Boulevard ) in the capital to " Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Boulevard ", in honour of his grandmother.

Her paternal grandfather Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury was the brother of Buckingham's paternal grandmother ( also named Anne Neville ), making Buckingham the Queen's second cousin.

Her father, Peter Kreuk, is of Dutch descent ; her mother, Deanna Che, is of Chinese descent, but was born in Indonesia ; her maternal grandmother was born in Jamaica of Chinese descent.

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

Her story is called " Ice ," and while she retains some of the main elements of the original fairy tale, such as the basic plot and the proximity of their houses and the window-box gardens, she does not mention the grandmother or much of the back story.

Her maternal grandmother was actress Judy Campbell and her uncle is the screenwriter Andrew Birkin, who directed her in The Cement Garden.

Her paternal grandmother, Dolores ( Neubauer ), and her mother, were American.

Her mother, Yelizaveta Fedorovna Schubert, was a scholarly woman of German ancestry and Sofia's grandmother was Romani.

Her family roots also include Scottish and First Nations descent through her 5th great grandmother on her mother's side.

Her maternal grandmother sent Zita and her sister Franziska to a convent on the Isle of Wight to complete her education.

Her paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother were Russian Jews, and her maternal grandfather was Chinese Filipino.

Her paternal grandmother was an Irish Catholic, and West's paternal grandfather, John Edwin West, was of English-Scots descent and a ship's rigger.

Her maternal grandmother was Ellen Oshey Matsumuro, a Japanese woman whose father was a Japanese artist.

Her son Luke Yankee is the author of Just Outside the Spotlight: Growing Up with Eileen Heckart ( ISBN 0-8230-7888-4 ), published by Back Stage Books in 2006.

* Barker, Eileen, New religious movements: a practical introduction London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1989.

Her first psychiatrist, Dr. Eileen Starbranch, testified that she urged the couple not to have more children, as it would " guarantee future psychotic depression ".

Her most famous role was her portrayal of Alma Miller, mother of Lisa Miller ( Eileen Fulton ) on the soap opera As the World Turns.

Her father, Alfred Marks, was Jewish and her mother Eileen converted to Judaism.

Her first starring role was Eileen Cavanagh in the long-running Edwardian musical comedy The Arcadians, which she took over from Phyllis Dare in 1910.

Her mother, Annie Ellen ( née Elkins ), was a barmaid who was 46 when Eileen was born, and her father, Arthur Thomas Atkins, was a gas meter reader who was previously under-chauffeur to the Portuguese Ambassador.

Her birth name was Eileen Cecilia Collinge.

Her promising relationship with biker Dennis Stringer ( Charles Dale ) fails when he leaves her for Janice Battersby ( Vicky Entwistle ), which results in Eileen punching Janice.