Queen, Tracey Emin, Barbara Windsor among ‘ladies of today’
By ANIMonday, February 15, 2010
LONDON - Tracey Emin, EastEnders star Barbara Windsor and the Queen are some of the women who have made it to a list honouring the “ladies of today”.
Celebrating its 125th year, respected publication The Lady has compiled a list of 125 of the most “intelligent, empowered and inspirational”, reports The Telegraph.
The women were selected by a panel of judges, including magazine editor Rachel Johnson.
On choosing the finalists, Johnson said: “A distinguished panel at The Lady and beyond put their heads together and after many weeks of lively, free and frank (ie vicious) argument settled on the 125 women we regard as Ladies of Today.
“This is not a scientific list, nor are these your usual run of females: we haven’t chosen them for their looks/vital statistics/reality TV careers, but because we think these are women who think not ‘what can I get out of this?’ but ‘what can I put in?’.”
The 125th anniversary issue of The Lady is out on February 16.
Here are the 125 “ladies of today”:
Royals/aristocracy
The Queen
Deborah Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire
The Duchess of Kent
The Duchess of Cornwall
The Princess Royal
Business
Jacqueline Gold
Karren Brady
Gail Rebuck
Elisabeth Murdoch
Natalie Massenet
Dame Marjorie Scardino
Helen Alexander
Science and research
Jane Goodall
Baroness Susan Greenfield
Activists and charity
Baroness D’Souza
Marjorie Wallace
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Shami Chakrabarti
Dame Fiona Reynolds
Dame Jennifer Jenkins
Public office and law
Caroline Lucas
Baroness Betty Boothroyd
Kate Hoey
Dame Stella Rimington
Baroness Shirley Williams
Clare Short
Fiona Shackleton
Elizabeth Wilmshurst
Baroness Helena Kennedy
Publishing
Victoria Barnsley
Carmen Callil
Caroline Dawnay
Caroline Michel
Journalism
Alexandra Shulman
Anna Wintour
Rebekah Brooks
Tina Brown
Dame Joan Bakewell
Virginia Ironside
Rosie Boycott
Sarah Sands
Sally Brampton
Writers and poets
Carol Ann Duffy
Jilly Cooper
Amanda Foreman
Selina Hastings
AS Byatt
Sarah Waters
Hilary Mantel
Doris Lessing
Joanna Trollope
Jacqueline Wilson
Lady Antonia Fraser
Jeannette Winterson
Food
Marguerite Patten
Prue Leith
Delia Smith
Nigella Lawson
Ruth Rogers
Rose Gray
Gardens and interiors
Penelope Hobhouse
Annabel Astor
Emma Bridgewater
Cath Kidston
Music
Annie Lennox
Dame Shirley Bassey
Dame Julie Andrews
Dame Felicity Lott
Sade
Kate Bush
Alison Moyet
Lulu
Petula Clark
Art and design
Sam Taylor-Wood
Tracey Emin
Maggi Hambling
Julia Peyton-Jones
Zaha Hadid
Voluntary sector
Ruth Bondiz Burnley
Fashion
Lulu Guinness
Betty Jackson
Emma Hope
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Barbara Hulanicki
Zandra Rhodes
Celia Birtwell
Mary Portas
Mary Quant
Anya Hindmarch
Daphne Guinness
Professor Louise Wilson
Film and theatre
Dame Maggie Smith
Dame Judi Dench
Dame Helen Mirren
Julie Walters
Tilda Swinton
Vanessa Redgrave
Emma Thompson
Honor Blackman
Dame Eileen Atkins
Hannah Rothschild
Margy Kinmouth
Jude Kelly
Katie Mitchell
Caroline Quentin
TV and radio
Anna Ford
Esther Rantzen
Kirsty Young
Kirsty Wark
Angela Rippon
Sandi Toksvig
Moira Stuart
Arlene Phillips
Jenni Murray
Kate Adie
Barbara Windsor
Dawn French
Joanna Lumley
Jennifer Saunders
Victoria Wood
Sport
Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson
Sally Gunnell
Sue Barker
Jayne Torvill
Dance
Darcey Bussell. (ANI)