page_title: Queen's College, London
section_title: Alumnae
hierarchical_section_title: Queen's College, London / Alumnae
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Katherine Mansfield
context_page_description: Queen's College is an independent school for girls aged 11–18 with an adjoining prep school for girls aged 4–11 located in the City of Westminster, London. Founded in 1848 by theologian and social reformer Frederick Denison Maurice along with a committee of patrons, the College was the first institution in the world to award academic qualifications to women. In 1853, it also became the first girls' school to be granted a Royal Charter for the furtherance of women's education. Ever since, the College patron has been a British queen; the current patron is Queen Elizabeth II.
  The College has a distinctly liberal ethos based upon the principles of F. D. Maurice.
context_section_description: Founded in 1891, the Old Queen's Society exists to connect former pupils with each other and the school. The first Honorary Secretary was Frideswide Kekewich and the first President, Ellen Howard.
  Known as Old Queens, alumnae have included many notable women over the school's history, including:
  Matilda Ellen Bishop (c.1858–60) first Principal of Royal Holloway College (1887–1897)
  Gertrude Bell (1884–86), archaeologist, cartologist, diplomat
  Katherine Mansfield (1903–06), poet and author
  Rosalie Glynn Grylls, Lady Mander (1919–23, biographer, lecturer, Liberal politician, art collector, who wrote a history of the College
  Sofka Skipwith (Princess Sofka Dolgorouk), Russian émigré, Communist, political prisoner, recipient of British Hero of the Holocaust honour
  Anne Said (1925–30), artist
  Diana Barnato Walker (1928–34), author and aviator
  Mary Soames (1940), Chairman, Royal National Theatre Board and daughter of Winston Churchill
  Jacqueline du Pré, cellist (1959)
  Anna Wintour OBE (1960–3), editor-in-chief, Vogue magazine
  Jane Asher, actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
  Hermione Lee (1963–65), biographer and Goldsmith Professor of English Literature, Oxford
  Harriet Cass, BBC announcer
  Daisy Goodwin (1972–77), BBC television producer
  Emma Freud (1973–80), broadcaster, member of the prominent Freud family
  Claudia Rosencrantz (1975–79), journalist, Controller of Entertainment, ITV, Commissioner of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, X Factor and I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, Director of Programming, Living TV, Director of Television, Virgin Media
  Susannah Constantine (1978), journalist, television presenter and fashion guru
  Asma al-Assad, First Lady of Syria
  Peaches Geldof, writer, presenter and model
  Amber Rudd (1979–81), MP
  Camilla Croudace, Lady Resident at Queen's College (1991-1906)
caption: Alumna Katherine Mansfield
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