Curated category
Wives of knights
- Anne HooAnne Hoo entered the world in 1424 as the sole child of Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings. Her mother was Elizabeth Wychingham, a union that produced only…
- Lady Margaret ButlerLady Margaret Boleyn was born around 1454 at Kilkenny Castle in County Kilkenny, Ireland, the daughter of Thomas Butler, the 7th Earl of Ormond.
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of WiltshireOn the 3rd of April 1538, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, died in the English countryside. She had outlived two of her three surviving children by…
- Vivien LeighVivien Leigh died on the night of the 7th of July 1967, alone on the floor of her Eaton Square flat in London. Her companion John Merivale had left her, as…
- Elizabeth Somerset, Countess of Worcester (1502–1565)Elizabeth Somerset, Countess of Worcester, sat to the left of Anne Boleyn at the queen's coronation feast, close enough to hold a cloth before the queen's…
- Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie holds a record no living novelist can claim: more than two billion copies of her books sold, making her the best-selling fiction writer of…
- Catherine ParrCatherine Parr signed her name as "Kateryn" in the books and letters she left behind, not the spelling later generations settled on.
- Elizabeth Cheney (1422–1473)Elizabeth Cheney was born in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire in April 1422, the eldest daughter of a High Sheriff. She would live for fifty-one years, marry…
- Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of SurreyElizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey, died on the 4th of April 1497 without knowing that two of her granddaughters would one day become queens of England.
- Linda McCartneyLinda McCartney was born Linda Louise Eastman in Manhattan on the 24th of September 1941, and by the time she died on the 17th of April 1998, she had been a…
- Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of BurmaEdwina Cynthia Annette Ashley entered the world on the 28th of November 1901 in London. Her father Wilfrid Ashley served as a Conservative member of…