- Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. However, she is more directly involved with the United Kingdom, where the Royal Family resides, and the Monarchy is historically indigenous. Apart from the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, … - Helen Mirren
From the age of 13 when she played Caliban in a school production of "The Tempest," Helen Mirren knew she wanted to be an actress. Her Russian-born father and English mother may have encouraged her to be a teacher like her siblings, but Mirren's mind was set. - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works include at least 38 plays, two long narrative poems and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, and at 18 married Anne Hathaway, … - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth, was the Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 1936 until his death in 1952. After her husband's death, she was known as "Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother", to avoid confusion with her daughter, Elizabeth II. Before her husband ascended the throne, from 1923 to 1936 she was known as the Duchess of York. She was the last Queen of Ireland and Empress of India. - J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon) from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English language and literature from 1945 to 1959. He was a devout Roman Catholic. - Prince Henry Of Wales
Prince Henry of Wales (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September 1984), commonly known as Prince Harry, is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and his first wife, the late Diana, Princess of Wales. He is third in the line of succession to the thrones of the United Kingdom and the other fifteen Commonwealth Realms, behind his father, and his older brother, Prince William. - Princess Michael Of Kent
Princess Michael of Kent, is a member of the British Royal Family. She is married to Prince Michael of Kent, who is a grandson of King George V. Princess Michael is an author, and has published several books on the royal families of Europe. She also undertakes lecture tours, and supports her husband in his public work. The Kents do not officially carry out royal duties, although they have on occasion represented Queen Elizabeth II at functions abroad. - Ian Rank-Broadley
Ian Rank-Broadley (born 1952) is a British sculptor who has produced many acclaimed works, among which are several designs for British coinage. Born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, Rank-Broadley was educated at Epsom School of Art (1970-74) and Slade School of Fine Art (1974-76) He then completed various post-graduate studies in the United Kingdom, Italy, and France. - Princess Diana of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 - 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their two sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth Realms. - Lady Louise Windsor
The Lady Louise Windsor is a member of the British Royal Family. She is currently the only child of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the youngest son of Elizabeth II, and Sophie, The Countess of Wessex (née Rhys-Jones) but the couple are expecting a second child in December 2007. Lady Louise is 8th in line to the throne and has been since her birth in 2003. - Charlotte Of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Queen Charlotte was the queen consort of George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820). She is the grandmother of Queen Victoria, and the great-great-great-great grandmother of the current Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II. Queen Charlotte was a patroness of the arts, known to Johann Christian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among others. She was also an amateur botanist who helped establish Kew Gardens. George III and Queen Charlotte had 15 children, … - Harald V of Norway V of Norway
Harald V, K.G. (born February 21, 1937) is the King of Norway. He succeded to the throne of Norway upon the death of his father Olav V on January 17, 1991. The son of the then Crown Prince Olav and of Princess Märtha of Sweden, Harald was born at the Crown Prince Residence at Skaugum, Asker, near Oslo. Harald became the first Norwegian-born prince since the birth of Olav IV in 1370. Harald V is the formal head of the Church of Norway and the Norwegian Armed Forces. - Mary Gillick
Mary Gillick (1881 - January 27, 1965) was a sculptor best known for her effigy of Elizabeth II used on coinage in the United Kingdom and elsewhere from 1953 to 1967. Born Mary Tutin in Nottingham, she was educated at the Nottingham School of Art and at the Royal College of Art from 1902 to 1904. After making her first exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1911, she designed several medals to be used as awards, and several other, … - Hammer Deroburt
Hammer DeRoburt, MP, KBE (September 25, 1922 - July 15, 1992) was the founding president of Nauru and ruled the country for most of its first twenty years of independence. A survivor of the wartime Japanese deportation of all Nauruans to Truk (1942-1946), he was elected to the Local Government Council of Nauru in the 1950s; then elected head chief (1955), he was the chief negotiator on phosphate royalties with the colonial power, Australia, … - Paul Scoon
Sir Paul Scoon (b. 4 July 1935) was Governor General of Grenada for 14 years, from 1978 to 1992. Paul was born on 4 July 1935 in Gouyave, a town on the west coast of Grenada. He attended St. John's Anglican School and then the [Grenada Boys' Secondary School]]. Scoon then received an external degree from London University before going on to study at Leeds University, England and gaining an M.Ed. at the University of Toronto, Canada. - Lise Thibault
Lise Thibault (born April 2, 1939) is a Canadian civil servant who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec on January 30, 1997. As a former Vice-Regal representative of Elizabeth II, as Queen in Right of Quebec, she is styled "The Honourable" for life. Born in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Quebec, Thibault has worked for a variety of different organizations in the government of Quebec, including the Department of Education, … - Pierre Brassard
Pierre Brassard is a Quebecois actor, comedian, television personality and radio broadcaster. He is associated with CKOI in Montreal and famous for his phone call hoaxes. He managed to arrange phone calls with Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II, pretending to be Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. He is a member of the comedy group Les Bleu Poudre. - Catherine Callbeck
Catherine Sophia Callbeck, B.Comm., B.Ed. (born July 25, 1939 in Central Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada) was premier of Prince Edward Island from 1993 to 1996, and the first woman in Canada to lead her party to victory in a general election. (There had been two earlier female premiers: Rita Johnston, who became premier by winning the leadership of the governing party but lost the subsequent provincial election, and Nellie Cournoyea, … - Aelfthryth
Aelfthryth, also known as Elfrida, (d. 929), was the last child of Alfred the Great, the Saxon King of England. She married Baldwin II (d. 918), Count of Flanders. One of their descendants, Matilda of Flanders (d. 1083), would go on to marry William the Conqueror, therefore starting the Anglo-Norman line of Kings of England. - Louis Garneau
Louis Garneau OC (born on August 9, 1958 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian road racing and track cyclist and cyclewear manufacturer. He is probably best known for putting his arm around Elizabeth II (breaking royal protocol) and having his photo taken. Garneau said: "I asked for a picture and she said 'no problem', so I just put my arm around her shoulder. In sport, we do that all the time. - Louis Mountbatten 1st Marquess of Milford Haven
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, GCB, GCVO, KCMG, PC (24 May 1854 – 11 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a minor German prince who married a granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria and pursued a distinguished career in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy, becoming a protégé of his future king, Edward VII. - Anthony Mamo
Sir Anthony Joseph Mamo, OBE, QC, (born January 9 1909) son of Joseph Mamo and Carla Brincat, was the first President of Malta when the country became a republic on December 13th, 1974, and held the office until 1976. He was previously Governor-General, representing Elizabeth II as Queen of Malta, when the country was a Commonwealth realm. He was also the first Maltese citizen to be appointed Governor-General, and before independence, briefly served as acting Governor. - Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1941. As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School, where one of his classmates was Phil Woods. In 1961 he established an independent recording studio A&R Recording. - Prince Albert Victor Duke of Clarence and Avondale
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale was a member of the British Royal Family, as the eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark. At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the throne after his father. However, he predeceased his father, and the crown eventually passed to his younger brother, Prince George (George V), the grandfather of the current British monarch, Elizabeth II. - Douglas Edwards
Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 - October 13, 1990) was America's first network news television anchor, anchoring CBS's first nightly news broadcast from 1948-1962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News. Edwards joined CBS Radio in 1942, eventually becoming anchor for the regular evening newscast "The World Today" as well as "World News Today" on Sunday afternoons. Not exactly one of "Murrow's boys", but a competent broadcaster, … - Pierre Duchesne
Pierre Duchesne (born 1940) is the current Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec and former secretary general of the National Assembly of Quebec. On May 18, 2007, he was announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as the next Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, replacing outgoing Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault. He was sworn in on June 7 2007. As a Vice-Regal representative of Elizabeth II, he is styled "His Honour" while in office and "The Honourable" for life. Mr. - Charles Spencer 9th Earl Spencer
Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, DL (born 20 May 1964) is the second and only surviving son of the 8th Earl Spencer by his first wife, the former Frances Burke Roche (later Frances Shand Kydd), daughter of the 4th Baron Fermoy. The youngest of his three elder sisters was Diana, Princess of Wales. His other sisters are Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes. Lord Spencer is godson of Queen Elizabeth II, and was a Page of Honour from 1977 to 1979. - Gordon Barnhart
Gordon L. Barnhart, SOM, BA, MA, PhD is a former Clerk of the Canadian Senate and the Saskatchewan Legislature, as well as former Secretary of the University of Saskatchewan. As one of the current Lieutenant-Governors, he represents Canada's Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, in Saskatchewan. - George Herbert 5th Earl of Carnarvon
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (June 26, 1866 - April 5, 1923) was an English aristocrat best known as the financier of the excavation of the Egyptian New Kingdom Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Born at the family home, Highclere Castle, in Hampshire on June 26, 1866, George Herbert was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, succeeding to the Carnarvon title in 1890. - Marion Stein
Marion Donata Stein (born 18 October 1926) is an Austrian concert pianist, operatic singer and a former Countess of Harewood. She was born in Vienna, Austria in 1926, as Theresa Pamplamousse Stein, the daughter of the musician Erwin Stein. She herself led a distinguished musical career. She has married twice, both times to illustrious characters: * 1) She married George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood on 29 September 1949. - Patrick Bowes-Lyon
Patrick Bowes-Lyon (born on 5 March 1863 in Belgravia, Middlesex - 5 October 1946 in Westerham, Kent) was a British male tennis player and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the mother of Elizabeth II. He was Scottish tennis champion in 1885, 1886 and 1888. In 1887 he and Herbert Wilberforce won the doubles in Wimbledon. As a younger brother of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's father, he was a great-uncle of the Queen. - Mary Elphinstone Lady Elphinstone
Mary Frances Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone and Baroness Elphinstone, DCVO (August 30 1883-February 8 1961) was a maternal aunt and a godparent of Elizabeth II. Born The Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon, she was the daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the elder sister of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth). - Benjamin Lascelles
Benjamin George Lascelles, born 23 November 1978, is the eldest son of David Henry George Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles, a British film producer who is the eldest son of the 7th Earl of Harewood, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, Viscount Lascelles is 41st in the line of succession to the British throne as well as the heir apparent to the Earldom of Harewood. - Francis Jackson
Francis Alan Jackson CBE (born October 2, 1917) is a British organist and composer. Jackson was born in Malton, Yorkshire. Organist of York Minster from 1946 until his retirement in 1982, he played for the wedding of Elizabeth II's cousin Prince Edward, Duke of Kent to Katherine Worsley on June 8, 1961. As well as having given recitals all over the world, Jackson has made numerous recordings of solo organ music, and of choral music with York Minster Choir. - John Beckett
John Beckett, QC, is a Scottish lawyer and former Solicitor General for Scotland. Beckett was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1993. He was on the defence team for Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi during the Lockerbie trial at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands. He has served as an Advocate Depute and a Senior Advocate Depute since 2003. He took Silk in 2005. He was appointed Principal Advocate Depute from 1 January 2006. - Salote Tupou III of Tonga
Sālote Mafileo Pilolevu Tupou III, Queen of Tonga, GCMG, GCVO, GBE (13 March 1900-16 December 1965), but usually named only: Sālote, was queen of Tonga from 5 April 1918 to her death in 1965. She was the daughter of king George Tupou II and his first wife, queen Lavinia Veiongo. Married to Viliami Tungī Mailefihi and the mother of Siaosi Tāufaāhau Tupoulahi (later king Tāufaāhau Tupou IV), Uiliami Tukuaho (5 November 1919-28 April 1936), and Sione Ngū Manumataongo, … - Birgitte, The Duchess Of Gloucester
The Duchess of Gloucester (Birgitte Eva; formerly van Deurs; born Henriksen, 20 June, 1946), is a member of the British Royal Family, the wife of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a grandchild of George V. The Duchess of Gloucester, with her husband, undertakes royal duties on behalf of the Duke's cousin, Elizabeth II. - Eric Symes Abbott
Eric Symes Abbott KCVO (May 26, 1906-June 6, 1983) was an English clergyman, and Dean of Westminster. Born in Nottingham in 1906 to William Henry Abbott and Mary Symes, both schoolteachers, he studied classics and theology at Jesus College, Cambridge. After graduating he held a number of different posts, such as Chaplain (1932-1936) and Dean (1945-1955) of King's College London, Warden of Keble College, Oxford (1956-1960), and Chaplain to King George VI (1948-1952), … - Dun Karm Psaila
Dun Karm was a Maltese writer and poet. He was educated at the Seminary between the years 1885 and 1894 and then proceeded to study philosophy in 1888 and theology in 1890 the University of Malta. He was ordained priest in 1894. From 1895 to 1921 he taught various subjects at the Seminary: Italian, Latin, English, arithmetic, geography, cosmography, ecclesiastical history and Christian archaeology. - Anne Royal Anne Princess Royal
The Princess Anne, Princess Royal (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950), is a member of the British Royal Family and the only daughter of Elizabeth II. She is the seventh holder of the title Princess Royal, and is currently ninth in the line of succession to the British Throne. At the time of her birth, she was third in line, but moved to second place from when her mother became Queen, until the birth of her brother, The Prince Andrew, in 1960.
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