How one woman’s mother became the model for an evocative First World War memorial.

She has just been made a dame – and now Kristin Scott Thomas is to play the Queen. What is it like to have an audience with Her Majesty, asks Matt Warren

…is an English actress best known for her role in the BBC drama Silent Witness. She is a patron of the environmental & human rights charity Environmental Justice Foundation. She plays the cello & piano, & lives in London with her daughter Rose.

The rare and remarkable images that show how women played a key role in the forging of the United States

Few knew Dylan Thomas better than Hilly Janes's father. Here, to mark the centenary of the poet's brith, she tells Rebecca Wallersteiner about his many faces