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 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 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 first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Her paternal great-grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, owned the house which is now Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum.

Her paternal great-grandfather, Bogić Camić Jovović, was a flag-bearer of the Vasojevići clan and an officer in the guard of King Nicholas I of Montenegro ; his wife's name was Milica, after whom Milla was named.

Her great-grandfather was an Italian who had come to Wexford in the 18th century.

Her maternal great-grandfather was Emperor Alexander II of Russia.

Her paternal great-grandfather was Latvian-born composer and pianist Edouard Hesselberg.

Her maternal great-grandfather was Major-General Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, who was of Turkish origin.

Her great-grandfather Adolphe Vorderman played a key role in the discovery of vitamins.

Her paternal grandfather was adventurer William Montgomery McGovern and her maternal great-grandfather was U. S. diplomat Ethelbert Watts.

Her paternal great-grandfather was of Polish descent, and her mother had Irish and French Canadian ancestry.

Her last purely Swedish ancestor was her great-grandfather, a descendant of Leonard Gyllenhaal, a leading Swedenborgian who supported the printing and spreading of Swedenborg's writings.

Her ancestry includes German, Welsh, English and Irish ; Lucretia Garfield's parental great-grandfather immigrated to Pennsylvania ( in a part that is now Delaware ) from Württemberg, Germany.

Her Italian surname stems from her great-grandfather, a Sicilian slater who emigrated to Germany during the 19th century.

Her maternal great-grandfather was journalist David S. Barry and her paternal great-great-grandfather was Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, a physician who served as president of the Association of American Physicians.

Her great-grandfather Andrew Griscom, a Quaker carpenter, emigrated in 1680 from England.

Her father Rajiv Gandhi, grandmother Indira Gandhi and great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru were all Indian Prime Ministers.

Her great-grandfather was professional concert singer John Coates Lockhart.

Her paternal grandfather was the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc and her maternal great-grandfather was Joseph Priestley.

Her great-grandfather, Frederick Miller, founded the Miller Brewing Company.

Her great-grandfather, Dak Hamee, was a Seer from the book The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, and her great-grandmother, Aldrea, was an Andalite nothlit ( a morpher who remained stuck in a morph forever ; in this case, she willingly trapped herself in Hork-Bajir form ).

Her great-grandfather was Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

Her maternal great-grandfather, Máximo Jeria Chacón, of alleged Greek heritage, was the first person to receive a degree in agronomic engineering in Chile and founded several agronomy schools in the country.

Her great-grandfather was a Russian immigrant named Eiser Cohen who came to the United States through Ellis Island.

Her father's great-grandfather was the burgomaster of Riga.