Her private life was largely focused on her large family of sisters, nephews and nieces, who used the home in Wykeham Terrace, Brighton, which she shared with sisters, Margaret and Shela.

Her bridemaids were her sister the Lady Angela Scott, her nieces, the Lady Elizabeth Scott, Miss Clare Phipps, Miss Anne Hawkins, her husband's nieces Princesses Elizabeth ( later Elizabeth II ) and Margaret of York, her cousin Miss Moyra Scott and her husband's cousin the Lady Mary Cambridge.

Her nephews and nieces included Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop of Cologne.

Her Savoyard nieces included Marie Jeanne, Duchess of Savoy and Marie Françoise, Queen of Portugal.

Her survivors include nephews, nieces and more remote relatives, who live in Europe, the United States and Chile.

Her education included how to spin and weave and she was forbidden to say or do anything, either in public or private.

Her symbols included the golden bow and arrow, the hunting dog, the stag, and the moon.

Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the " rejected " Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.

Her books in the late 1920s included the semi-autobiographical The Fairy Caravan, a fanciful tale set in her beloved Troutbeck fells.

Her feast day, at the time, was not included in the Roman Calendar.

Her popularity as a radio performer and vocalist, which included a second hit record " My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time ", led directly to a career in films.

Her movie career included a bit part in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and roles in Outlaw Women ( 1952 ), Glen or Glenda ( 1953 ), Body Beautiful ( 1953 ), The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), Mesa of Lost Women ( 1953 ), College Capers ( 1954 ), Jail Bait ( 1954 ), The Raid ( 1954 ), This Is My Love ( 1954 ), The Opposite Sex ( 1956 ), The Ironbound Vampire ( 1997 ), and Dimensions in Fear ( 1998 ).

Her reading matter included Tennyson, Wordsworth, Milton, Coleridge, Trollope, Thackeray and George Eliot.

Her stories have been included in numerous anthologies and a few have had radio and television adaptations.

Her later film assignments included Father Goose ( 1964 ), with Cary Grant ; Ken Russell's Valentino ( 1977 ), in the role of silent-screen legend Alla Nazimova ; and Louis Malle's Damage ( 1992 ).

Her major initiatives included education and women's health.

The 583-item Collection La Caze donated in 1869, included works by Chardin ; Fragonard ; Rembrandt – such as Bathsheba at Her Bath – and Gilles by Watteau.

Her sections included Stoechas, Spica, Subnudae, Pterostoechas, Chaetostachys and Dentatae.

Her contemporaries included artist Romaine Brooks, who painted others in her circle ; writers Colette, Djuna Barnes, social host Gertrude Stein, and novelist Radclyffe Hall.

Her repertoire included working with such artists as Barry Humphries.

Her brothers included Cesare Borgia, Giovanni Borgia, and Gioffre Borgia.

Her entry would be included in the encyclopedia until 1969, becoming readily accessible to the public, and it was for this reason that her ideas on the subject had such a significant impact.

Her godparents included her father's cousin, Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

Her godparents included her great-aunt the Countess of Devon, Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey, and the Duchess of Norfolk.

Her expenses included fine clothes and gambling at cards, one of her favourite pastimes.

Her wardrobe included red so often that the fire-engine shade became known as " Reagan red ".

Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes ( 1997 ), The Hi-Lo Country ( 1999 ), The Girl of Your Dreams ( 2000 ) and Woman on Top ( 2000 ).

Her cults included agrarian magic, dancing, and rituals.

Her collaborators included Laurindo Almeida, Harold Arlen, Sonny Burke, Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones, Francis Lai, Jack Marshall, Johnny Mandel, Marian McPartland, Willard Robison, Lalo Schifrin and Victor Young.

Her family pointed out that, although she had been omitted, R & B singer / actress Aaliyah, who died a few months earlier, was included though having been in only one moderately successful film, Romeo Must Die ( Queen of the Damned had yet to be released ).

' Her face, with its glamour-gorgon makeup, softens, as Madame Armfeldt seems to melt into memory itself, and the wan stage light briefly appears to borrow radiance from her.

Madame Palmyre with Her Dog, 1897.

* Madame Charpentier and Her Children ( 1878 )

* Samuel C. Chu, ed., Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and Her China ( Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2004 ).

Her most famous novel was Madame de ..., published in 1951, which was adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ), directed by Max Ophüls and starring Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio de Sica.

Her relationship with the comtesse du Barry was one which was important to rectify, at least on the surface, because Madame du Barry was the mistress of Louis XV, and thus had considerable political influence over the king.

Her lady-in-waiting Madame de Motteville wrote the story of the queen's life in her Mémoires d ' Anne d ' Autriche.

The " Voltaire " was at the Academy of 1883 ; it was followed, in 1884, by the " Marriage de convenance ", perhaps the most popular of all Orchardson's pictures ; in 1885, by " The Salon of Madame Récamier "; in 1886, by " After ", the sequel to the " Marriage de convenance ", and " A Tender Chord ", one of his most exquisite productions ; in 1887, by " The First Cloud "; in 1888, by " Her Mother's Voice "; and in 1889, by " The Young Duke ", a canvas on which he returned to much the same pictorial scheme as that of the " Voltaire ".

Other test films by Case in his process include Miss Manila Martin and Her Pet Squirrel ( 1921 ), Bird in a Cage ( 1923 ), Madame Fifi ( 1925 ), and Chinese Variety Performer with a Ukelele ( 1925 ) and Gallagher and Shean ( 1925 ), all recorded in a sparse studio located on the second floor of the Case estate carriage house in Auburn, New York, now a museum.

Her recent roles include Lady Adelaide Stitch in the film Nanny McPhee ( 2005 ), Leona Mullen in the 2007 Broadway play Deuce, Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of the play Blithe Spirit and Madame Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical A Little Night Music.

Her only other first billed roles were in Madame X ( 1937 ) and Love is a Headache.

Her official sponsor, Madame de Béarn, presented her to the Court at Versailles on 22 April 1769.

Her most bitter rival was the Duchesse Béatrix de Grammont, Choiseul's sister, who had in vain tried her best to acquire the place of the late Marquise de Pompadour, and according to Madame Adélaïde, Béatrix de Grammont would have disdained the comtesse no matter what.

Her 1962 novel, Madame Sousatzka, was made into a film in 1988, with Shabana Azmi and Shirley MacLaine.

Her association with several prominent dignitaries and public figures from across Europe has earned Madame Geoffrin an international spot of recognition.

Her contralto voice and attractive appearance gained Madame Vestris her first leading role at age 18 in Italian opera in the title-role of Peter Winter's II ratto di Proserpina at the King's Theatre in 1815.

Her notable theatrical roles include Young Woman in Machinal, Celia in As You Like It ( 1984 ), Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses ( 1985 ), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew ( 1987 ), Winnie in Happy Days ( 2007 ), and the title roles in Electra ( 1988 ), The Good Person of Sechuan ( 1989 ), Hedda Gabler ( 1991 ), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1998 ) and Medea ( 2000 ).

Her honorary nicknames include the " First Lady of Physics ", the " Chinese Marie Curie ", and " Madame Wu ".

Her lengthy novels, such as Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus ( 10 vols., 1648 – 53 ), Clélie ( 10 vols., 1654 – 61 ), Ibrahim, ou l ' illustre Bassa ( 4 vols., 1641 ), Almahide, ou l ' esclave reine ( 8 vols., 1661-3 ) were the delight of Europe, commended by other literary figures such as Madame de Sévigné.

Her family received further scorn as her sister, Trần Lệ Chi, who was married to Nguyển Hữu Châu had a French lover named Etienne Oggeri, and critics alleged that Madame Nhu introduced the laws so that her sister's husband could not get a divorce.

Her first marriage made her Madame de Stuers until her divorce.

Her godparents were her paternal uncle The Prince Leopold ( for whom The Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel ( represented by Prince Francis of Teck ); Count Gleichen ; the Duchess of Nassau ( for whom Princess Francis of Teck ); the King of Sweden and Norway ( who was represented by Baron Hochschild, the Swedish minister ); the Princess of Leiningen ( represented by Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde ); her maternal aunt the Tsarevna of Russia ( represented by the Baroness de Brunnow, the Russian ambassador's wife ); the Crown Princess of Denmark ( represented by Madame de Bülow, the Danish Minister's wife ); and the Duchess of Inverness ( widow of Queen Victoria's uncle the Duke of Sussex ).

Her mother, the well-known Madame Sophie Gay, brought her up in the midst of a brilliant literary society.