She entertained two friends, actresses Joanna Pettet and Barbara Lewis, for lunch at her home, confiding in them her disappointment at Polanski's delay in returning from London.

She often entertained the king, trying to relieve him from the state of boredom in which the court often plunged him.

She sang at Covent Garden and entertained troops in north Africa during World War Two, before moving to Arizona, USA until her husband's death after which she returned to Aylsham to live with her sisters.

' She entertained there nightly and hired the Quintette du Hot Club de France as one of the house bands at the club.

She too was entertained and given the choice between two boxes.

She did forty-eight shows for " broken soldiers ," who were mostly lying on stretchers in the lobbies of hotels, watching as she entertained them.

She allegedly was entertained by the Queen of the Fairies, also known as the Queen of Elphame, in her home " under the hills ".

She is said to have entertained Harry and his friends by dancing naked on the dining room table.

She sang one of the solo parts of Haydn's Nelson Mass and entertained guests at her home.

She tended to her clients all day, and entertained at parties with violin music in her gardens at night, attended by Parisian upper class society.

She also entertained and worked with children with disabilities at the Mary Free Bed Home for Crippled Children.

She also entertained injured troops in the hospital on the estate during World War II.

She sang, she danced, she entertained 250 audience members every day.

She entertained the troops and raised money to help wounded veterans.

She met John Astor, reportedly the richest man in America, in 1910 and although it is not certain where they were first introduced there is a newspaper article which shows that he entertained the whole Force family at his home at Bar Harbor in September 1910.

She also entertained her brothers and sisters with stories from an early age.

She entertained cruise ships for P & O as a singer for four years before returning to England.

She was nevertheless greatly influenced by the foreign refugees who frequented her step-father's house, especially Mazzini, for whom she entertained a passionate admiration, and of whom she afterwards published interesting reminiscences.

She attended meetings, wrote about the organization in her My Day column, entertained children of Gold Star Wives at a picnic at her home in Hyde Park, served on the first board of directors, and was one of the original 15 signers when the organization was chartered as a non-profit organization in the State of New York in December 1945.

She was also present in July 1575 when Dudley entertained the Queen with a magnificent 19-days festival at the castle.

She was aware of the plight of many of the Bábís and even was a close friend to Táhirih whom she entertained in her private parlour.

She entertained numerous celebrities and foreign dignitaries including United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles.

She opened the Variety Club show singing a duet with Bob McGrath, sang the first set of songs at the Molson Indy ( a major car race ), and entertained on New Year's Eve at Planet Hollywood at the age of 12.

She entertained Queen Mary to tea at Dolphin Square in 1938, and became President of the Band of Hope, the leading Christian temperance organisation, in May 1939.

She was a passenger in a car that raised the suspicions of German troops at an unexpected roadblock that had been set up to find Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe of the Das Reich Division, who had been captured by the local resistance.

She promised not to send any French troops into Perth if the Protestants evacuated the town.

She sent troops to the Afghanistan War, but did not contribute combat troops to the Iraq War although some medical and engineering units were sent.

She was so enchanted by the faithful recreation of the ceremony for the return of the troops from Italy that she could not stop herself from calling out “ Long Live the Empress !”

She visited troops, hospitals, factories, and parts of Britain that were targeted by the German Luftwaffe, in particular the East End, near London's docks.

She then used this money plus an earlier loan from Charles to raise a mercenary army, scouring Brabant for men, which were added to a small force of Hainaut troops.

She was thus in captivity in Serbia when NATO forces took the capital and Serb troops withdrew from the country.

She was captured by a group of Union troops from the 91st New York Volunteers led by E. D.

She toured the US from January 1942 to September 1943 ( appearing before 250, 000 troops on the Pacific Coast leg of her tour alone ) and it is said that she sold more war bonds than any other star.

She claimed she had a sojourn in France, entertaining the troops during World War I.

She routinely referred to American and allied troops in the Pacific theater as " boneheads ".

She also called for the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland.

She then repeated her performance for the broadcast audience, launching a series of some 500 appearances in programmes designed to entertain the troops.

She fought against British troops when Sir Hugh Rose besieged Jhansi on 23 March 1858.

She is considered a prominent figure of the war for her support of the troops and her willingness to remain with López until the bitter end.

She was occupied by Czechoslovak troops between 1918 and 1919 after the First World War.

She was carrying a large supply of ordnance and military stores intended for the British troops in Boston.

She was attacked from north, five months after the battle, by troops of the Hungarian King Sigismund.

She was released by the advancing Allied troops in April 1945.

She performed many times for Allied troops, travelling as far as New Guinea, where she received an enthusiastic response from Australian personnel.

She reminisced about her memories of seeing troops off to World War I and welcoming them home.