She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the chorus line at the London Palladium.

She joined the Maenads disregarding her pregnancy, and got into labor when she was dragging a sacrificial bull by the horns.

She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to perform solo.

She was joined by her sister Lydia who shared an apartment with her.

She also joined the Literary Club and had two stories published in the yearbook: Little Sister and Sergeant Terry.

" She joined his band in 1941 and stayed for two years.

She also joined the Pep Club, the National Honor Society, National FFA Organization and Paperdoll Queen.

She then began dating Kevin Gilbert and joined him in an ad hoc group of musicians known to everyone in the group as the " Tuesday Music Club.

She joined Olivier for a European tour with Titus Andronicus, but the tour was marred by Leigh's frequent outbursts against Olivier and other members of the company.

She also joined Temple's summer program at Tennessee State and trained regularly and raced with his Tigerbelles for two years.

She joined her first band " The Changing Times " while attending Arcadia High School in Arcadia, California.

She was attending a high school party and saw Buckingham playing " California Dreamin '", and joined in with the harmony.

She has spoken of being embarrassed about handing President Bill Clinton a silenced tambourine when he joined Fleetwood Mac on stage.

She was joined by guitarist Marc Ribot and percussionist Jay Bellerose.

She was joined there by her daughter, Edith of Wilton, who lived there as a nun until her death.

She is soon joined by Freder and Josaphat, who help her rescue the children and escape to the upper levels of the city via an escape ladder.

She also joined the choir in the finale of " O Holy Night ". Joan Baez concert in Dresden, Germany, July 2008

She first aligned with Sean and Vecepia who readily joined her.

She introduced him to Transactional Analysis therapists and joined him in meditation twice a day, ( given to him by Harriet Levy ), and cooked him a macrobiotic diet.

She joined Earth First!

She also joined Earth First!

She also joined a host of distinguished comedy stars, including Ian Carmichael and Peter Sellers, in the Boulting Brothers ' satire I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ).

" She joined the literary circles of New York and Boston and made the acquaintance of local lights on the lecture circuit, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household.

She soon became involved with the suffrage movement and joined her mother at speaking events.

She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances.

She attended the Professional Children's School, in New York City, and made her professional theatre debut in a 1966 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Tammy Grimes.

She also used to sing in the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus.

She has also been nominated for two Gemini Awards for " Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series " for Ready or Not in 1996 and for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for Platinum in 1998.

She was President of the National Society and of the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Invalid Children's Aid Nationwide ( also called ' I CAN ').

She has appeared in many TV commercials for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, which she supports.

She has written more than fifty novels including the much loved " Flambards " series of pony stories, for which she won both the 1969 Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association and the 1970 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.

She trained as a dancer from her early age at the Children's Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

She attended the Professional Children's School in Manhattan.

She serves on the board of the Children's Defense Fund ( CDF ) and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007, serving as honorary chair of the charitable Avon Foundation.

She also serves on the board of the Children's Defense Fund, a child advocacy and research group.

She also supports the SOS Children's Villages charity.

She also acted in The Children's Hour, which is the theatrical basis of her film These Three ( 1936 ).

She was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Children's Hour ( 1961 ).

She appeared on the television shows Name That Tune and several times on The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour at age five.

She has also been the patron of the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo, which she regularly attends, and the World Association of Children's Friends ( AMADE ), which was founded in 1963 by her mother Grace, Princess of Monaco.

She is the fourth original Children's Corner puppet.

She played for The Children's Health Fund, which received $ 200, 000 for her efforts.

She also serves on the board of directors and chairs the Advisory Council for the Children's Health Fund in NYC.

She attended New York City's Professional Children's School and the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan.

She supported the feminist Katti Anker Møller's home for unwed mothers ( 1906 ), which was regarded as radical, designed furniture for the benefit of the Barnets utstilling ( The Children's Exhibition ) in 1921, and sold photographs for charitable purposes.

She supports universal health care and, in particular, covering uninsured children through the State Children's Health Insurance Program ( SCHIP ).

She has also been active on the Congressional Children's Caucus, Democratic Homeland Security task force and the livable communities task force.

She became a junior minister in 1998 and was made Minister for Universities in 2001, where she sponsored the controversial Higher Education Act 2004, and remained there until 2003 when she was made Children's Minister.

She worked in the National Health Service ( NHS ) before training as a registered nurse at Ashford General Hospital in Ashford, Middlesex, and won prizes as Nurse of the Year and Children's Nurse of the Year.

She worked as a Social Work Assistant for Berkshire County Council from 1981 – 84 ; as a Social Worker for Nottinghamshire County Council from 1986 – 90, becoming a Senior Social Worker from 1990 – 92 ; as a District Manager for Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council Social Services from 1992 – 96, as Child Services Manager for Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council from 1996 – 99 ; and Assistant Director of City of York Council Children's Services from 1999 – 2000.