Windsor Berkshire

Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born in Windsor in 1944 and was the first man to completely cross Antarctica on foot. Among many adventures, his Transglobe Expedition of 1979 lasted more than 2 years and entailed travelling around the world on its polar axis covering 52,000 miles.

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Laura Constance Hardie was born in Windsor in 1878 and joined the theatre at an early age. Taking the stage name Constance Collier, in 1906 she played opposite the legendary Berbohm Tree in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra at His Majesty's Theatre in London's West End. Constance later moved to America and became a star, appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" (1948), and Otto Preminger's "Whirlpool" (1949). She became a noted acting coach and trained Katharine Hepburn to play Shakespeare in the 1950's. Constance Collier died in 1955.

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Entrepeneur and Dragon's Den TV Star Peter Jones has been awarded a CBE in the new year Honour's list. Peter's relationship with Windsor is that his father owned a business in town and Jones says that as a boy he would sit in the leather chair of his father's Windsor office dreaming of being an important boss someday.

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