He had received very little education: the youngest of 13 children, he had left school at 12 years old, to be employed as under-chauffeur (my father always pronounced it with a French accent) to ...

And Dame Eileen Atkins is not so bad at the withering verbal ... Women think they can have a fantastic career and four children, and knock themselves out trying to do it all,' she said.

When Cranford producer Sue Birtwistle was casting the actress to play the absolute moral centre of Elizabeth Gaskell's fictitious 1840s northern town, she turned naturally to Dame Eileen Atkins.

Instead, granted time by a seemingly never-ending pandemic, the 87-year-old Eileen Atkins wrote about a challenging and often brutal journey to stardom, recently playing Queen Mary in The Crown.

When Cranford producer Sue Birtwistle was casting the actress to play the absolute moral centre of Elizabeth Gaskell's fictitious 1840s northern town, she turned naturally to Dame Eileen Atkins.

Dame Eileen Atkins has slated "laddish" female TV presenters ... Women think they can have a fantastic career and four children, and knock themselves out trying to do it all." ...

And as she is portrayed here by the exquisite Eileen Atkins, there is something oddly childlike about this self-described "hysterical old hag" — even though her existence is a sort of living ...