In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1968, Holt's widow Zara Holt was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, becoming Dame Zara Holt DBE.

She was launched by Holt's widow Dame Zara at the Todd Shipyards in Los Angeles on 3 May 1969, and was the first American warship to bear the name of a foreign leader.

Sture's widow, Dame Kristina Gyllenstierna, was still resisting in Stockholm with support from the peasants of central Sweden, and defeated the Danes at Balundsås on March 19.

Sture's widow Dame Kristina, and many other noble Swedish ladies, were sent as prisoners to Denmark.

* The dialogue scene before " There grew a little flower " ( No. 25 ) was considerably shortened ; the first version exploring the topsy-turvy idea that if Sir Roderic and Dame Hannah were married, her husband would be a ghost, and she would therefore be a wife and a widow at the same time ( this concept was recycled in The Grand Duke ).

The Australian federal Division of Lyons is named jointly in honour of Joseph Lyons and his widow Dame Enid Lyons.

Joan Plowright, Joan Ann Olivier, the Lady Olivier, DBE ( born 28 October 1929 in Brigg ), known by her maiden name as Dame Joan Plowright, is a British actress, widow of Laurence Olivier.

Thomas's widow, Sybil, Viscountess Rhondda ( 1857 – 1941 ) was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1920.

* 1943: Enid Lyons ( later Dame Enid ), widow of Joseph Lyons, elected first woman member of House of Representatives, winning seat of Darwin ( now Braddon ).

* 1949: Tasmanian politician Dame Enid Lyons, widow of former prime minister Joseph Lyons, becomes first woman to reach federal ministry rank, as Executive Council vice-president

* Dame Zara Bate DBE – Fashion designer and wife ( later widow ) of Harold Holt, had a salon called ' Magg ' in the Toorak Village.

It was created 31 July 1800 for Dame Dorcas Blackwood, widow of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, Member of the Irish Parliament for Killyleagh and Bangor.

The play proper begins with a proctor and amateur dramatist Littlewit and his friends, Quarlous and Winwife ; they are plotting how to win Dame Purecraft ( a widow, and Littlewit's mother-in-law ) from Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, a canting, hypocritical Puritan.

* Die Gräfin Ulfeld oder die vierundzwanzig Königskinder, 2 vols., 1834 („ Dame Ulfeld, or, the 24 Royal Children “, novel on a life sentence on a Danish rebel ’ s widow )

His widow, Henrietta Brown, applied to have Guibord buried in Notre Dame des Neiges, a Catholic cemetery.

They were founded by Dame Eleanor Allan, the daughter of a local goldsmith and the widow of a tobacco merchant, to provide a proper education for " 40 poor boys and 20 poor girls of the parishes of St Nicholas and St John ".

And so, in April 1933, Mom Sangwal and her children took off for Switzerland, together with a small entourage among whom was a young relative name Boonruen Sopoj, who later became Dame ( Thanpuying ) Boonruen Choonhavan, the widow of Prime Minister General Chatichai Choonhavan.

In 1839 he settled his private life by marrying Mary Anne Lewis, the rich widow of Wyndham Lewis, Disraeli's erstwhile colleague at Maidstone.

A long-told anecdote claims that the widow Mary Lincoln gave Lincoln's favorite walking stick to Douglass in appreciation.

Catherine was demoted to Dowager Princess of Wales ( a title she would have held as the widow of Arthur ), and Mary was deemed illegitimate.

In 1784, with the assistance of his niece, Mary, he arranged a private sale to Margaret Cavendish-Harley, widow of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland and so dowager Duchess of Portland.

While there, he married in 1648 ( as fourth wife ) a young widow, Mary Beedle of Kittery, Maine.

His widow Mary published his lengthy autobiographical " poem to Coleridge " as The Prelude several months after his death.

On 7 May 1788, he married the widow Mary Pitt ( née Baldwin ) at St Laurence's Church, Upton in Slough.

He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance.

On June 13, 1859, Olmsted married Mary Cleveland ( Perkins ) Olmsted, the widow of his brother John ( who had died in 1857 ).

His widow, Pamela Mary Llewelyn, died in East Sussex in 2001, aged 85.

The Hague was the residence of the young widow of William II, Charles I's daughter Mary Henrietta Stuart, the Princess Royal.

On 30 October 1535, Mary gave birth to her first son, Francis, but on 9 June 1537, Louis died at Rouen and left her a widow at the age of 21.

There were however strong disagreements between the baby's widowed mother in law Amalia van Solms, and widow daughter in law Mary, Princess Royal, ( 4 November 1631 – 24 December 1660, aged 29 ) on even the name for christening the Dutch-English Royal newborn.

James V's widow, Mary of Guise, acted as regent from 1554 until her death at the castle in 1560.

Mary returned to Scotland a widow, in the summer of 1561.

His body was cremated, and his widow Laurie, his mother Mary, and half-brother David scattered his ashes at sea off the coast of Oxnard, California.

Three of the brothers ( William, James, and Robert ) of Mrs. Mary " Molly " Gray Edwards, widow of the deceased, shot and killed judge Edward D. Edwards Sr. and his son Luther Edwards.

The widow Mary Coles Payne took her two youngest children, Mary and John, with her.

Bono's widow, Mary, was selected to fill the remainder Congressional term.

Known as " Mary Beth ", she is the widow of former Georgia Democratic Governor George D. Busbee.

It was owned and operated by Mary Palmer, a widow of the Revolutionary War.

The castle complex continued to thrive, however, and on Thomas ' death in 1138 the castle passed first to his widow, Mary, and then in 1362 into the Ufford family.

Mill Creek was originally settled by Mary Fielding Smith ( widow of Hyrum Smith ) and her children, including Joseph F. Smith, in 1848.

Nancy Boggs ( 1786-1846 ) was the daughter of John Boggs ( 1738-1826 ), the namesake of Boggs Run, by his second marriage to Mary ( née Williamson ) Barr ( 1748-1828 ), who was the widow of Robert Barr ( 1750-1778 ).