Queen Elizabeth II

This was still Smith's latest novel, however, when in 2004 she was honoured in connection with both her race and her gender: nominated for the list of A Hundred Great Black Britons and invited to...

In 1966 SS received the Cholmondeley Award. Three years later came the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. She wrote of her twenty minutes with the queen : You feel you're with an enormously charming...

ES was awarded a DBE by the Queen ; she was the first poet to receive this accolade.

VB published an account of the progress of women's struggle and status during the first half of the twentieth century: Lady into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II.

CD edited a poetry anthology, Jubilee Lines: 60 Poets for 60 Years, to mark Elizabeth II 's Diamond Jubilee.

She broadcast, too. For the US radio network of Mary Margaret McBride she described, live, the responses of the crowds in the streets at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth on 2 June 1953.

Although not Poet Laureate, UAF was commissioned by the organisers of Bolton Festival to write a celebratory work for the eightieth birthday of Queen Elizabeth II . Its first performance, with music by composer Martin Lessons

The Girl Guides (founded in 1910), having heard that AJ wrote plays about teenagers, commissioned her in 1960 to write a play for their fiftieth anniversary. It was meant to be performed by four hundred...

JM published a book about reporting from the Mount Everest expedition, titled Coronation Everest because its account of the conquest of the summit had reached London providentially on the eve [1 June 1953] of Queen Elizabeth

ST published The Queen and I, a novel which was later produced as a play with music at the Haymarket, Leicester , on 23 March 1994. It led to a sequel, Queen Camilla, 2006.

In spring 1953, amid public excitement over the forthcoming coronation of Queen Elizabeth II , a journalist acquaintance of DB , Kyle Crichton, suggested she should write an article of reminiscences about the coronation of...

Her first book about the Duchess of York, written while the Duchess was on tour in Australia, ended with the anxious moment of the reunion of the stranger mother with her toddler daughter the...

By the end of June 1999 JKR was officially a millionaire. In the Sunday Times's annual Rich List she first appeared in 2001 as number 526 with a fortune of £65 million. She rose...

About this time she signalled her enjoyment of her new level of wealth by buying a racehorse (from that other racing enthusiast Queen Elizabeth ), registering her colours as an owner, and allowing this story...