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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.
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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.
Her father was Czech Jewish and her mother was Austrian-Slovene Catholic — she was Ludwig's maternal grandparent and only non-Jewish grandparent, whose ancestry was Austrian < ref >
Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from England.
Her maternal grandmother, Eileen Pearce, emigrated from Newbridge, Kildare, Ireland.
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 and grandparents
Her family is Jewish, and her grandparents emigrated from Russia.
Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening Leo's Tavern, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair.
Her paternal grandparents were immigrants from Russia and Romania ; many of her father's family perished in the Holocaust.
Her paternal grandparents were Emperor Charles IV and Elizabeth of Pomerania.
Her paternal grandparents were William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders.
Her parents were likely brother and sister and hence she had only one set of grandparents.
Her maternal grandparents were Guy of Dampierre and his first wife Matilda of Bethune.
Her maternal grandparents were John II of France and Bonne of Bohemia.
Her maternal grandparents were John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife Lady Margaret Beauchamp.
Her maternal grandparents were Otto-William, Duke of Burgundy and Ermentrude of Rheims.
Her " maternal grandparents were Unitarians – a non-conformist faith with a strong emphasis on social reform ...".
Her paternal grandparents were natives of Wales, and her maternal grandparents were Swedish and Scottish.
Her maternal grandparents were John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and Katherine Swynford.
Her paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother were Russian Jews, and her maternal grandfather was Chinese Filipino.
Her maternal grandparents were Eric II, Duke of Schleswig ( reigned 1312 – 1325 ) and Adelaide of Holstein-Rendsburg.
Her paternal grandparents were Archduke Charles of Austria and Princess Henriette Alexandrine of Nassau-Weilburg.
Her maternal grandparents owned theatres.
Her and were
Her eyes were glazed as if she didn't hear or even see him.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
Her legs were the full, sexy kind, full bodied like a rare wine and just as tantalizing to the appetite ; ;
Her glance swung past the trailer where the two drivers were standing.
Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.
Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.
Her thoughts were not discrete.
Her eyebrows were definite and heavy and formed two lines moving upward toward a high forehead and a great head of brown hair that fell to her shoulders.
Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.
Her eyes were bright with anticipation.
Her `` Rockabye Your Baby '' was as good as it can be done, and her really personal songs, like `` The Man That Got Away '' were deeply moving.
Her hesitation was only momentary and she hoped he didn't notice it, as she settled herself, asked quickly how Miss Jenny and the babies were getting on.
Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong.
Her bright eyes were twinkling.
Her hair never seemed to be in place and her skirts were never quite the correct length.
Her eyes were wild.
Her dark cool caresses were sweeter than any woman's ; ;
Her eyes were smiling, too, but so sadly, and there was tiredness and infinite wisdom in them.
Her extendibles were diverted, connected or augmented and the final, delicate-beyond-description brain taps were completed while Helva remained anesthetically unaware of the proceedings.
Her book titles, changed by American publishers, for example Ten Little Niggers to Ten Little Indians, were kept the same across the Atlantic, after bushels of fan mail.
Her two children by Philip II, Philip, count of Clermont ( died 1234 ), and Mary, who married Philip I of Namur, were legitimized by the pope in 1201 at the request of the king.
Her remaining children were raised between her, Livia Drusilla and Germanicus ’ mother Antonia Minor.
Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.
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