Now poised for what had become her daily confrontation with her eldest niece, she snapped, "The board is necessary, Julia.

After leaving China in 1951, Wolfe spent a year in Dublin in the home of Betty, her eldest niece.

My eldest niece, Edith, and daughter Alice.

It was briefly used by the eldest niece of Louis XIV, Marie Louise d'Orléans (1662-1689), later known as just Mademoiselle.

My eldest niece is now older than my brother was at that first Thanksgiving in Manhattan.

Leaving four daughters but no male heirs, according to the remainder, the dukedom of Hamilton devolved on his eldest surviving niece, Anne, who became Duchess of Hamilton in her own right.

Lady Jane Grey, her eldest niece.

Then she contacted Stes and Theesa, her eldest niece, on the internal com.

She was 10 years younger than her sister, Donna, and 10 years older than her eldest niece, Kelly, which gave her insider perspectives.

I was startled to discover, in the course of writing this article, that my eldest niece, two generations removed from my father's death, has also struggled with its meaning.